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S. Kay Murphy

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S. Kay Murphy Because I am currently working on an urban fantasy middle grade novel (still with me?), I've decided to re-read The Chronicles of Narnia. I've started…moreBecause I am currently working on an urban fantasy middle grade novel (still with me?), I've decided to re-read The Chronicles of Narnia. I've started, actually, by reading C.S. Lewis's Letters to Children, which I am finding absolutely endearing and inspiring. It always amazes me that Lewis could be the brilliant man who wrote The Screwtape Letters and The Great Divorce but also the kind and charming man who wrote those sweet and amusing books for children. This will be my fourth time reading through them. I read all seven when I was 21 (having won them in a writing contest), then read them all again--twice through--when my children were little (one of our fondest memories together). Can't wait to read them again!(less)
S. Kay Murphy The best advice anyone can give you in this craft is to do the work. (Watch the movie Author's Anonymous, made just for writers! It carries this all-i…moreThe best advice anyone can give you in this craft is to do the work. (Watch the movie Author's Anonymous, made just for writers! It carries this all-important message!) Show up every day and love yourself and believe in your work enough to commit to it daily. It doesn't matter whether you write one chapter or one page or simply one sentence every day; be present to attend to the task, shove all the other voices out of your head for a while, and listen to your muse. Every one of us has a unique story to tell. Tell yours!(less)
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Today My Eyebrows

Some weeksago I had a thing to go to—a poetry reading or speaking engagement or somewherethat I couldn’t wear dog-walking attire and I had to be presentable. Whichmeant I also had to make my face right. Ever since my actual eyebrows becameannoyed with my constant plucking and decided to up and leave my face, I haveto carefully sketch them in. (Well, “carefully” when an audience of humansmight be s

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Frank Herbert
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
Frank Herbert, Dune

Philip Pullman
“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
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Brandon Sanderson
“The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.”
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Virginia Woolf
“I feel a thousand capacities spring up in me. I am arch, gay, languid, melancholy by turns. I am rooted, but I flow.”
Virginia Woolf, The Waves

Sarah Dessen
“Life is full of screwups. You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existance.”
Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride

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Kris Neri Thanks for adding this mystery & paranormal author. I'm looking forward to reading your reviews. I read biographies, too.

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