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| If you want to be a professional writer, think and act like a professional. It was a long time before I could get the courage to tell people "I'm a writer." But once I reached that point and started to see myself as a writer, my writing improved as a result. --Lois T. Bartholomew |
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| Join your professional writer's organization. I sold my first book because I had joined the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. At a conference sponsored by SCBWI a visiting editor gave me a critique of my first manuscript pages and asked to see the rest. --Lois T. Bartholomew |
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| I have been told that great athletes imagine themselves winning before the event ever takes place. The mental reality becomes a physical reality. What do you do when you go into a bookstore? Do you move the bestsellers aside to make room for your book? Do you "see" the title of your cover article in your favorite magazine? --Lois T. Bartholomew |
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| Writing a book is a lot like climbing a mountain. One starts with enthusiasm, but part way up, fatigue sets in. That is when you need to keep going. Get your second wind and climb the rest of the way up. Never lose sight of the goal. And when you get there and start back down, don't forget to encourage others who are still on their way up. --Lois T. Bartholomew |
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| Books open windows, bringing in fresh air. -- Vicki Palmquist |
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| Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. --Groucho Marx |
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| When I face the desolate impossibility of writing 500 pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day's works is all I can permit myself to contemplate. --John Steinbeck |
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| The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. --Mark Twain |
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| Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed. --Ray Bradbury |
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| Books aren't written; they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it. --Michael Crichton |
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| Write what you want to read. The person you know best in this world is you. Listen to yourself. If you are excited by what you are writing, you have a much better chance of putting that excitement over to a reader. --Robin McKinley |
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| Creative Fantasy is founded upon the hard recognition that things are so in the world as it appears under the sun; on a recognition of fact, but not a slavery to it. --J.R.R. Tolkien |
The White Dove
Cave Maze
Try out this fun printable maze of the cave where Tasha, Raina, Ari, and Gil hide. It took Ari a few weeks to learn how to get around the cave. How long will it take you?
Ana's Sweet Honey Rolls
This is the recipe for Ana's famous and tasty honey rolls. Now you can make them for yourself and see why everyone loves them so much! Check back for more recipes later.
Click on the above link to purchase a printable map of the Capital. This is the actual map used by Lois when writing The White Dove . Lois's son, Daniel, drew the map for her along with the map that is featured in the front of the book. Now you can get your own printable copy for only 25 cents.
Recommended Books
A Long Way from Chicago
--Richard Peck
Dealing with Dragons
--Patricia C. Wrede