“Each New Year, we have before us a brand new book containing 365 blank pages. Let us fill them with all the forgotten things from last year—the words we forgot to say, the love we forgot to show, and the charity we forgot to offer.“
– Peggy Toney Horton
Another New Year is upon us! In preparation for this coming year, I took a look at my writing goals from this past year which you can find in this post. I didn’t do as well as I hoped with my writing goals this past year, because of travel, unexpected work changes and schedules and everyday life! (Isn’t that the way it always seems to go? 🙂 )
Who is a literary women? Literary women are women of letters. Their hearts sing with the simple joy of the written word. A perfect word in a choice sentence. They thrill to the feeling of the pen gliding across the blank page.
Woods in Winter
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
When winter winds are piercing chill,
And through the hawthorn blows the gale,
With solemn feet I tread the hill,
That overbrows the lonely vale.
O’er the bare upland, and away
Through the long reach of desert woods,
The embracing sunbeams chastely play,
And gladden these deep solitudes.
I have followed K.M. Weiland over at her site Helping Writers Become Authors for several years. She is an award-winning, self-published author. The advice she offers on her site is some of the best I have come across online and comes from her years of seasoned experience.
When I realized that she had written some books on how to write a story, I was thrilled with the idea of reading them! I decided to start with the second book in her series, Structuring Your Novel. I already love to outline like crazy, but I don’t always know how to get my story into a structured form with clearly defined scenes.
Continue reading “Book Review: K.M. Weiland’s Structuring Your Novel”
“We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.” –Thornton Wilder
(This post was suppose to go out last week, but life happens! 🙂 Hope you enjoy!)
When I was younger, I would love to sit and watch people and wonder where they were going and what their stories were. Because everyone has a story. As I got older, that interest in stories grew and inspired a desire to travel and see new places. Both in my own country and abroad.
Legends and Roses 