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Theresa Cavender

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Theresa Cavender lives with her husband in Georgetown, Texas. As an award-winning teacher and avid traveler, she has combined her talent and passion in her novels. Her debut novel, Dancing Naked in the Rain (Vol. 1 The Beryl Stone Series) won an Editor's Choice Award from iUniverse and was the 1st Place Romance Winner in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards Contest in 2010. She has also written Stars Walking Backward (Vol. 2 The Beryl Stone Series) and is currently working on Vol. 3, Voices in the Dark. ...more

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Theresa Cavender This may be strange, but I sit in a comfortable chair with my laptop, close my eyes, move into my main character's realm, and then let go. You have to…moreThis may be strange, but I sit in a comfortable chair with my laptop, close my eyes, move into my main character's realm, and then let go. You have to learn to let go and write. You can always delete it or save it or change it or ignore it. But it never fails me.(less)
Theresa Cavender Doing what I really want to do. Simply writing.
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Dancing Naked in the Rain

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Keeping My Mouth Shut: On Writing

"The author should keep his mouth shut when his work begins to speak." (Nietzsche)

mouthshutI don't agree with Nietzsche on everything, but the above quote caught my eye a few days ago. I'd been working on my third novel, Voices in the Dark, and, without hesitation, I stood right up on my soapbox and delivered a sermon.(Don't worry. It was very short.) At the time, I thought, This is a bit preachy. Read more of this blog post »
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H. Jackson Brown Jr.
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

Mahatma Gandhi
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
Mahatma Gandhi

Friedrich Nietzsche
“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

Greg Bear
“Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings — stronger than old hapless gods. And they will be strong once again.”
Greg Bear

Langston Hughes
“Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.”
Langston Hughes

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