Musings of a Chocoholic Romance Author: Spooky Express... Mystery Tour Departing Now for Stop #4

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Saturday's stop was in Australia: the Legend of Fisher's Ghost: Campbelltown, Australia.

All aboard and comfy for our next stop!

1. Our destination was built in 1810.
2. Was involved in one of the bloodiest battles of the American Civil War.
3. Sports over 100 bullet holes in the southside wall.
4. Sharpshooters used this place, the bullet that killed the only civilian to die in this battle came from a sharpshooter here.
5. There have been up to 16 ghosts reported in this place.

Where are we?

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

Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way. ~E. L. Doctorow

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

Musings of a Chocoholic Romance Author

Monday, October 15, 2007

Spooky Express... Mystery Tour Departing Now for Stop #4

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