consider this question

Before you sign your name to your list of New Year's Resolutions this year, consider this question:

www.lifeyourway.net
 



The possibilities are endless, and they are different for each of us. Lose weight, train for a marathon, go vegetarian, smile more, go back to school, revise your manuscript, protect the environment, travel more, save more, and on and on.

 

In addition, you might consider trying to:

 

www.naturalitabaker.blogspot.com





or to

www.quotesvalley.com



or, if you left something undone in 2014 you might want to

 

 





If you still can't decide what to attempt in 2015, take Eleanor Roosevelt's advice:

www.pandawhale.com



Happy New Year!


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jan

pure joy and boundless hope

Merry Christmas!

 

www.toplowridersites.com

 

If I could make just one person this happy on Christmas Day

my joy would be complete:

 

 

Wishing you tears of

pure, unadulterated joy this Christmas...

and

a New Year full of boundless hope.



 

www.dec.ny.gov

 

"Hope is the thing with feathers

that perches in the soul,

and sings the song without words,

and never stops at all."

~Emily Dickinson~

jan



how to read a book, for writers

 

HOW TO READ A BOOK (For Writers)

 

Always read a book with a pen in your hand.

 

 

This affords you the opportunity to underline and codify the passages you like for easy reference later on: 

!--amazing

*--remember this

:)--cute, clever, or funny

 









  

Of course, you can always use color-coded post-its to do the same thing:



But, a pen also enables you to jot down notes as you go along...





...as well as keep a list of words whose definitions you need to look up some time later on:
 



 

Why bother??

 

Because every fresh metaphor, every snappy line of dialogue, every new word we encounter makes us better writers. What we learn through recovery, reflection, and repetition elevates our work. Reading makes us better writers, and writing makes us better readers.

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And...if you think writing is boring,
you could be doing that wrong, too.

 

 jan