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Daily Words of Wisdom

“If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.” 
― Anaïs Nin

Book Two in the Penelope Parker Series.

I have, at least, gotten started on the second book, and I need to get cracking in order to finish it before October. That's when the applications go in for  the 2016 Emerging Local Authors. I do have a cover, and a few chapters written, so if I could write the first one in 30 days, surely I can do this one in a longer period of time!

Daily Words of Wisdom

I have definitely found this to be true!

“Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.” 
― Neil Gaiman

Emerging Local Authors-Victoria, BC

What a great evening! So wonderful to see so many local authors (137), all from South Vancouver Island! Don took some pics, and I'll get him to upload them later. Got silly photos done in the photo booth. Saw two other authors we know, and one, Shaughnessy Brookes who couldn't be there, as she is out at sea. We took photos for her and also got her a button.

Words of Wisdom

“Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.” 
― Neil Gaiman

Exciting Opportunity

On Friday, April 10, I am attending a get together hosted by our public library. It is intended to showcase local authors and their works, and it will be great to meet other authors who live in Victoria, and brainstorm with them. And even better, my book will be in the library!

Daily Words of Wisdom

“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.” 
― William Faulkner

Daily Words of Wisdom

“The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them -- words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but for want of an understanding ear.” 
― Stephen King,  Different Seasons

Daily Words of Wisdom

“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.” 
― Louis L'Amour

Daily Words of Wisdom

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” 
― Sylvia Plath,  The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath