“The world is a book, And those who do not travel, Read only a page.” By Saint Augustine To me, reading a book is traveling. When I read Aegean Dream by Dario Ciriello, I felt as if I had gone to the Island of Skopelos. When something reminds me about the book, I can imagine […]
Machu Picchu Peru Discovered this Day in 1911
American historian Hiram Bingham discovered Machu Picchu, one of my favorite places on earth, on July 24, 1911. Its location was kept a secret for hundreds of years until Bingham searched for what was considered one of the “lost” cities of the Incas. https://www.History.com states: “Traveling on foot and by mule, Bingham and his team […]
Website and Blog
Time to Write Now will be down for a few days while my website master works on my site. I’m not sure when that will happen, but sometime between late next week and August 12th. A new look replaces the row of books and the green background. The blog’s name and link will be the […]
Writing Prompt
Now that summer is half over and school will begin in about a month, how have your children spent their free time? Our house is in a court with three families who have children under the age of 11. They’ve been playing basketball and baseball in the mornings and evenings. The afternoon is too hot. […]
Blogging Books and Book a Blog
Today I listened to a replay of a youtube presentation by Nina Amir and Joel Friedlander. I have Nina’s book titled How to Blog a Book, but this webinar expanded the opportunities that she explained in her book . She has teamed up with Friedlander to package several templates and a guidebook to aid writers […]
Poetry in Written Across the Genres
In Written Across the Genres, the romance section, Mary Lou Haugh contributed two poems and E.A. Provost entered one. Haugh’s “A Forbidden Night” and “Love at Our Heels” are from her book, Love At Our Heels – A collection of Poems. E.A. Provost wrote “What a Hand Weighs” and she can be found on Twitter: […]
Novel Writing Quotes
Gene Wolfe said, “You never learn how to write a novel. You only learn to write the novel you’re on.” “The protagonist is the character whose fate matters most to the story.” Stephen Koch