Do you ever examine yourself the way you do others? Do you think about why you act a certain way, or do certain things? Think about your characters in that same way, and remember: no one is perfect.
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Examining myself (as a character)
Tagged with: Author, books, self-reflection, writing, writing tips
Posted in Intrigues, My Favorite Things, Writing tips
Posted in Intrigues, My Favorite Things, Writing tips
Refresh your mind by reading different genres
I don’t know about you, but sometimes I feel the need to read different things at different times. I can’t just read the same romance novels, or murder-mysteries, or fantasy series all the time. I have to branch out. I’m…
Time for a change
I woke up this morning at 4:30 a.m. from a dream that inspired me and had me itching to write. I knew I didn’t have time to really work on it, but I did write down everything I could remember…
Reading something different
There are definitely times when I really enjoy reading books that are different. I recently read a blog post about reading books outside of your comfort zone. It has a couple good lists of books that you should check out,…
Tagged with: Book, book review, books, comfort zone, controversial books, future, Literature, Reading, Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers
Posted in Book review, Excellent, Intrigues
Posted in Book review, Excellent, Intrigues
Review: C.J. Archer’s Witchblade Chronicles
Over this past week and a half, I’ve enjoyed two books from author C.J. Archer and her series, The Witchblade Chronicles. Those who follow this blog know that I enjoy romances usually as a way to pick me up at the end of…
Tagged with: Archer, book review, books, Goodreads, historical romance, London, Romance novel
Posted in Book review, Good
Posted in Book review, Good
Reputation is everything
This weekend I received an interesting direct message on Twitter from a writer whose book I had previously reviewed. “My book’s changed to the extent that UR review’s no longer accurate [link to review]. Consider yourself lucky I haven’t reviewed…
Tagged with: Author, book review, books, E-book, ereader, malicious, reputation, Review, rude, twitter
Posted in Writing tips
Posted in Writing tips
Keep reading! That is my goal.
Happy New Year to you all! I thought it would be fitting to start this new year out with a list of books that I read last year, along with the ones I plan to read this year. If there’s…
Tagged with: 2013, books, Déjà Dead, Gail Carson Levine, inheritance by christopher paolini, Juliet Marillier, Kathy Reichs, Kelley Armstrong, Kylie Brant, reading challenge, Seth Grahame-Smith
Posted in On My Bookshelf
Posted in On My Bookshelf
Add Into Fire
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