Musings of a Chocoholic Romance Author: Stuff and Such and Such and Stuff

Friday, November 25, 2011

Stuff and Such and Such and Stuff

There! Officially decorated for Christmas. Did anyone brave the Black Friday crowds? Mom and I hit JC Penney for the door buster prices, but we most certainly did not go there at 4 in the blessed a.m. Oh, heck no. We got there around 11 in the morning, and found TERRIFIC deals. We are so excited with our purchases and Dad and Mr. Laura should be GREATLY impressed with how much money we saved them by shopping this sale. *Nods sagely.*

Working on writing a short Christmas story for the free reads page on my website. Right now, there's a new Thanksgiving story up, and I'll leave that up through the end of December: http://www.freewebs.com/laurahamby/index.htm (click on the free reads age). Hope to have a Christmas shortie up by the end of next week.

Would like to see my yahoo group (http://www.freewebs.com/laurahamby/index.htm) become more active. Writers are welcome to join and network, run contests. It is WRITING/READING related. If you join and spam the group with dating service sites, you will be removed. If you use bad language, you will be removed. If you post anything that is non-writing/reading related, you will be removed. Hate to be hard-nosed about that, but The Rules is the rules, and it IS *my* group, so I gets to make Da Rules. Since I've mentioned what you can't do, I'll now mention what you CAN do: Post links to your blog, webbie; run contests (which you are completely in charge of running and making sure the prizes are awarded in a timely manner); post links to purchase your books (but not to the point that it becomes spam-like - you may post links to purchase your books once a week); post book reviews (however, no spoilers and all reviews must be positive - you can say you didn't like a book, but you must say it nicely); offer writing tips or ask for writing tips; post excerpts of your novels (PG-13 rating). Mostly, I just want it to be a fun place to gather and chat and remind ourselves that while writing is a solitary business, we don't hafta be hermits.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Ernest Hemingway

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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

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