Monday, March 28, 2011

I'm back!

I truly enjoyed Janet Evanovich! She will continue to be a mentor to me. But on to something new. Not sure what, but I had thought about using Bird to Bird. I will see. But this week I will leave this: A freebee from Kindle How I Write Novels, by Margaret Wolfe Hamilton (1855-1897).

I love the following excerpt from her: To sit down in cold blood and deliberately set to cudgel one's brains with a view to dragging from them a plot wherewith to make a book is (I have been told) the habit of some writers, and those of no small reputation. Happy people! What powers of concentration must be theirs! What a belief in themselves--that most desirable of all beliefs, that sweet propeller toward the temple of fame. Have faith in yourself, and all me, will have faith in you.

Doesn't that define the magic of writing!
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  1. BettyMarch 28, 2011 at 11:03 PM

    Carol Ann--You make me want to read J. Evanovich. Have never read anything of hers. What dedication a writer must have to grind out novels. Sometimes I think I'd like to run away somewhere & just write, write, write. Time's a'wastin'! B.

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  2. KimGApril 1, 2011 at 8:22 AM

    @Betty: the quotation in the second part of CA's post is from Margaret Wolfe Hamilton. Who in the heck is that? Since it's free from Kindle, I think I'll be downloading that one and investigating further.

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