Musings of a Chocoholic Romance Author: Today's Post Brought to You By The Blue Plate Special...

Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Today's Post Brought to You By The Blue Plate Special...

Let's start with an announcement. Why? Because it's my blog, and I'm the one writing this post, that's why.

I'm running a contest for ONLY the members of my newsletter today through this Thursday night. If you haven't joined the newsie loop, what are you waiting for? An engraved invitation? Well, consider this your engraved invite. The prize is an e-copy of my newest release--in the Pops' Diner anthology. Run! Don't walk! Join my newsie. You know you wanna.

To join the newsletter click on this: Musings of a Chocoholic Romance Novelist-- Interactive Newsletter.

You can find out more about the Blue Plate Special: Pops' Girls series by checking out the links below.

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Quotes About Writing

For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word. ~Catherine Drinker Bowen

Forget all the rules. Forget about being published. Write for yourself and celebrate writing. ~Melinda Haynes

My purpose is to entertain myself first and other people secondly. ~John D. MacDonald

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else. ~Gloria Steinem

A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. ~Thomas Mann

Easy reading is damned hard writing. ~Anonymous

We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to. ~Somerset Maugham

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The secret of becoming a writer is to write, write and keep on writing. ~Ken MacLeod\

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards. ~Robert A. Heinlein

Never throw up on an editor. ~Ellen Datlow

If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write. ~Stephen King

There are no rules in writing. There are useful principles. Throw them away when they're not useful. But always know what you're throwing away. ~Will Shetterly

Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned. ~Oscar Wilde

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. ~Jack London

If you wait for inspiration, you're not a writer, but a waiter. ~Anonymous

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master. ~Ernest Hemingway

You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing. ~Gene Wolfe