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I like nonsense. It wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities. ~Dr. Seuss And so we come to the last mystery photo of this Mystery Photo Game. …
We yearn for the beautiful, the unknown, and the mysterious. ~ Issey Miyake The Mystery Photo Game continues. I hope you all are having fun. “The man who has no imagination has no wings.” — Muhammad Ali I’ll make a little edit on Muhammad Ali’s quote and insert woman in there with man. We all need wings and imagination. So …
The more things remain obscure and mysterious, the more they interest me. I even try to find mystery in things that have none. ~Patrick Modiano Are you ready to stir a little more mystery into your day? Well, if not mystery, how about imagination exercise. I have to admit that sometimes I think my imagination is lagging a little …
“A continuing story is a beautiful thing to me, and mystery is a beautiful thing to me, so if you have a continuing mystery, it’s so beautiful. And you can go deeper and deeper into a story and discover so many things.” ~David Lynch Thanks for all your fun comments and guesses on my first mystery photo. You came up …
Every solution to every problem is simple. It’s the distance between the two where the mystery lies.” ― Derek Landy, Skulduggery Pleasant Are you ready for a new giveaway? A new book meant a newsletter giveaway but also a giveaway here on One Writers Journal. The odds of winning are much better here on my online journal than in my …
This wonderful book is about an Appalachian community in the mountains that experienced the blessing of learning when the Moonlight School came to them. The author did a wonderful job capturing the heart of the mountain people, and the desire of many of them to learn to read and write. (Connie R) I got my edited work in progress …
Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble. ~Yehuda Berg How many of you, as children, learned the …
One of the fun things about researching my Appalachian books is reading about the mountaineer’s sense of humor. Since I’m working hard on edits on my work in progress that has a Monday deadline, I decided to share some of the jokes I’ve come across in reading Appalachian books. These are from a book my mother bought years ago — …
Happy week after Mother’s Day. Sorry that I’m a day late with this post. I was celebrating with my kids this weekend and just let the computer rest for a couple of days. And now I need to get to work on editing my next year’s book. (This year’s book is releasing next week. Yay! Hoping readers will like …
A box of books landed on my deck last week. My story, A Chance for Kallie Mae, arrived all dressed up in a beautiful book cover with all my words printed inside. So many words. But it’s my hope that they are the right words that will pull readers into the story and make them cheer on Kallie Mae as …