Category: Creativity and Inspiration
Some Favorite Authors…
As writers, we all have those particular authors who inspire us and teach us. We love their stories and read them again and again. Maybe they are the authors who first got us interested in writing our own stories. Maybe they were the authors who encouraged us that, “If they did it, so can I!” 🙂 We pick up every book we find by them, because we know we will learn something new or enjoy yet another fabulous tale.
Summer Reading List ~ Take II
I’m looking forward to digging into my large TBR list again this summer! I don’t know about you, but everything in life seems to slow down in the summer and I find I have more time to read, write and enjoy the printed page. 🙂
Here is what I am looking forward to reading this summer…
I have had this book for a while now and I am looking forward to learning about the world of one of my favorite authors! I might be doing a little bit of research too….
Because the Words…
Why does a writer write? Because the words call to us. The stories won’t tell themselves. If there is one thing authors all have in common, it is their love of words. Words are our paint. Our clay. Our plants in our garden. Building our imaginary worlds with words makes us architects.
Book Wisdom
“When you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while.”
– Anne of Green Gables
“So many things are possible just as long as you don’t know they’re impossible.”
– The Phantom Tolbooth
“It is never too late to be wise.”
– Robinson Crusoe
England Inspired
It’s been a little over a month since I returned from my two week trip across the pond to visit a country I have always dreamed of seeing. England!
It was definitely winter while I was there! Most of the time, the houses and streets looked like this –
Book Review: The Artist’s Way
Over the winter months, I recently got the opportunity to dig into this amazing book! I had been feeling the need to get back to my artistic roots and my brother recommended this book to me. I am glad he did! It was one of the most thought-provoking books I have ever read about what it means to create and what it means to be an artist.