"I want to write a book......"

~What I said just before my life changed~

"There are some people in my life that have tried to get me to believe that time is only wasted on dreaming, to them I say and I quote, 'All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.' ~Orison Swett Marden~

    I will never stop dreaming or reaching for my dreams, not now...not ever..."

"The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say." 

"Though I am terribly unedgamacated, I am smart enoff to know, I can still succead, even if I can’t spell!"

 "Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all." 

"Like a moth to the flame, I am drawn to writing, I do not question it, for no answer would diminish my urge even though I know the fire may some day consume me."

"Put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an "Author" is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it."

"If I know anything of pain, it's that instead of wasting it on only tears that will dry up and fade away, I can instead pour my despair into the the pages of my book." 

                                    ~Written the day I put my sweet doggy Teagan to sleep~

"What no wife (in my case HUSBAND) of a writer can ever understand, is that a writer is working when he's (she's) staring out of the window."

"Writing is a lot like acting, you have to take all your emotion and use it in your depiction of the scene... the truly gifted can make you feel as if you are the actor!"

"As a writer I have come to the conclusion that I LOVE the backspace key, it comes in handy when my mind goes faster then my hand can type...and it leaves no eraser marks!"

The Great Rules of Writing!

"Do not put statements in the negative form."
"And don't start sentences with a conjunction."
"If you reread your work, you will find on rereading that a
great deal of repetition can be avoided by rereading and editing."
"Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do."
"Unqualified superlatives are the worst of all."
"De-accession euphemisms."
"If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is."
"Avoid trendy locutions that sound flaky."
"Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague."
 

"Ah...the rain...Oh how I love thee..you are so inspirational...the lovely pitter-pat of you dancing down the trees, and the soothing sound of your tranquil flow as you stream over the landscape...I could write about you all day... But I cant, I have to edit."

 "The difficulty of literature is NOT to write, but to write what you MEAN; not to affect your reader, but to affect him PRECISELY as you wish."