by SMThornton | Apr 30, 2010 | Uncategorized
You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. ~Ray BradburyI go through spurts where words just pour out of my head onto my laptop screen. Granted, I don’t have a lot of writing time every day, but sometimes things just flow. At the same time, my...
by SMThornton | Apr 28, 2010 | Uncategorized
I don’t write mysteries, but I loved this video Janet Reid posted on her blog the other day.I’ve killed off characters before, to the extent that if I really were my protagonists, I’d be a serial killer. However, I’ve never actually had a...
by SMThornton | Apr 26, 2010 | Uncategorized
I put out a bird feeder in October, excited for the return of my birdie friends from last winter. Alas, the only two feathered critters who decided to grace my feeder all winter were a pair of black-capped chickadees. They’re adorable, but last year I had a bird...
by SMThornton | Apr 21, 2010 | Uncategorized
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. -Theodore...
by SMThornton | Apr 20, 2010 | Uncategorized
Okay, so I’m a huge fan of diseases. Not having them, mind you, but studying them. It’s pretty amazing that we don’t all die from bacteria, viruses, and prions before we hit puberty. Life in ancient Egypt was hard- the average life expectancy was...
