Famous Writing Quote of the Day

“Conflict is like the caffeine in coffee. It doesn’t make the coffee taste better but it does make the drinker more aware of how the coffee tastes.”

Vince Mooney

Famous Writing Quote of the Day

“You pay for free books with the ‘opportunity cost’ of not being able to read a better book during that limited time span."
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Famous Writing Quote of the Day

“Your characters will be defined by what they notice.”

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Famous Writing Quote of the Day

“Not every story can have a ‘stand-up-and-cheer-I-can’t-wait-to-buy-the-author’s-next-book’ ending but every book by a given author can.”
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Famous Writing Quote of the Day

“A great quote should be like an echo that adds words to our deepest unexpressed feelings.”

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Famous Writing Quote of the Day

 

 

 

“If you want your writing to read like everyone else’s, follow the same rules everyone else follows.”
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Famous Writing Quote of the Day

“Writing is not difficult once you’ve learned to do all the right things by habit; however, writing well is always difficult.”

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Famous Writing Quote of the Day

“Social media is not designed to sell books but it is designed to nudge readers into reading books they already have. The future of marketing is going to be fought over getting prospects to read the books they already have.”

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Famous Writing Quote of the Day

“Authors take note: an eBook reader is a target rich environment.”  
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Famous Writing Quote of the Day

“All writing rules, even the most specific, are just good faith attempts to point the writer in the right direction.”

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It's Philosophy!

“Every philosopher will eventually become a bad influence.”

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Famous Writing Quote of the Day

“Either move the story or move the reader or risk the reader moving to another story.”

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Famous Writing Quote of the Day

“Some books must be read many times in order to be read once.”

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Famous Writing Quote of the Day

“Do you want a ballet with the fewest steps or the most beautiful movements?”

“It’s not how many words you use. It's why you used the words you used.” 

Vince Mooney

Famous Writing Quote of the Day

“It’s as important to know when to stop rewriting as it is to know when to rewrite in the first place.”

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Famous Writing Quote of the Day

“Conflict is dandy but caring is candy.”

Vince Mooney

Famous Writing Quote of the Day

“There is a point of diminishing returns in writing. After a certain point, the more you rewrite, the worse your writing gets.”

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Famous Writing Quote of the Day

“The idea of always using the fewest number of words when writing is like always using the fewest number of bricks when building a house. It doesn’t make any aesthetic sense unless you just want a roof over your head."

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Famous Writing Quote of the Day

“Conflict stimulates interest. Caring holds interest.”

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Famous Writing Quote of the Day

“The secret to writing is layering to improve what you’ve already written and editing to make sure it is correct. It’s not so much rewriting as it’s enhanced writing.”

Vince Mooney

Out of the Blue Comes A Masterpiece! “One For the Road” -- Five Wonderful & Zany Stars!

“A Lady's Diary of Her Middle Age Crazy RV Tour of the Southwest With a Country Music Band!”

“One for the Road”

Lynne Marshall

Publisher: The Wild Rose Press;

Last Rose of Summer edition (July 12, 2011)

Sold by: Amazon Digital Services

Bold!  Exciting!  Original!  

Where In the World Did “One For the Road”  Come From?

I mean it!  Out of the blue!  Lynne Marshall writes a masterpiece!  Well, it’s not like, “War and Peace,” but then it’s not like any romance I’ve ever read either!

The heroine is a recent middle aged widow out of luck and nearly out of money trying to get her huge RV back to California and home.

The hero is a washed-up, one-hit-wonder, country music ‘star’ hoping to make a comeback after ten years. He has a second rate ‘tour’ lined up in country bars and roadside taverns throughout the southwest.  He just needs a way to get him and his band to those places. He doesn’t have the money…yet…but he does have a supply of Viagra. Are you still with me?

The story is fun, wacky, zany and so realistic, it would be very easy to believe that it’s taken from the author’s person diary.

Realism Like You’ve Never Seen it!

I keep thinking as I read this book: is this fiction or is it nonfiction?  The bars are realistic rough places. The band members are some pretty hard characters. They are hard drinking, foul speaking, womanizing and somewhat loveable.  These guys make Waylon and Willie look like choirboys. The bars are so well described you just know they have to be real places.

Inside Country Music!

The author also shows a detailed knowledge of the country music business along with the ins and outs of running a band tour.  The heroine drives the RV and does the cooking. She also goes to some of the shows in some pretty scary dives. However, she’s ‘with the band’.  Talk about character growth. You can watch her growing, page by page.

Do You Speak Southwest?

Lynne Marshall has invented a new idiom to describe the landscape and events in this book. It is as much fun to read how says something as it is to find out what that something is!  

“Look What I Can Do!”

“One for the Road” shows the author at the height of her powers. It’s almost as if she were saying “Look what I can do when I’m totally free to be creative and fly wherever I want to.”

The action takes place all over the southwest and back again.  The author had to have done it. The descriptions, the distances between towns, the temperatures, the sounds at night, the smells of the desert, the ins and outs of every kind of RV park – it’s all there in the story. "One For the Road"  lives and breathes the southwest and I’m a major southwest genre fan.  If you love the southwest, this book delivers!

It's Not Just a 'Read' -- It's an Experience!

Oh, yes, also in the book are: life and death danger, bad guys, nasty music people, cops, and RV chases. There is never something not happening!  Each band member is a certified character almost too real to be fictional. What an experience!

I was sad when "One for the Road" ended but I’ll read it again and again. It’s more than a keeper…it’s a repeater!

Lynne Marshall – An Accomplished Medical Romance Author!

I’ve enjoyed the author’s Medical Romances for years now. In fact, she has two recent Medical Romances out right now. But don’t let that fool you. “One for the Road” will be like no romance you've ever read before. It's like having too much fun within the romance genre!  And if you're like me and would enjoy reading about an 'older' hero and heroine: this is it!

Five Stars!

It’s as good as it gets!

Dr. Tall, Dark and Dangerous?

Courting his Favorite Nurse

Lynne Also Writes Great Medical Love Stories!

Famous Writing Quote of the Day

No matter how much we rearrange this garbage, it's still garbage.

“The secret to writing is not rewriting. Seven times garbage is still garbage. The secret is spending the time and effort to learn how to write. This can take many years.”

Vince Mooney

Famous Writing Quote of the Day

“Conflict is like caffeine. It’s an artificial stimulus. A skilled writer should be able to write compelling prose without needing to use conflict. Ask yourself, ‘how interesting is my writing without the conflict? Is my voice worth hearing a cappella? Is my reading rewarding enough to be enjoyed without the conflict?’ If it is not, then you have a lot of work to do.”
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Famous Writing Quote of the Day

“The critics of backstory are often more interested in moving the story than moving the reader.”  

Vince Mooney