Quotes of the week

You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.
—Dr. Seuss

Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.
—Lisa See

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
—Steinbeck

Ideas—the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper...
—Mark Twain

I rewrote the ending to Farewell to Arms, the last page of it, thirty-nine times before I was satisfied.
—Hemingway

Never use a metaphor, simile or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
—George Orwell

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
—Albert Einstein

If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.
—Natalie Goldberg

You must write for yourself above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
—Gustave Flaubert

Images That Inspire My Writing: Another World...

Reading this Week: Rocket Ship Galieo

This week I re-read another classic, Rocket Ship Galileo.

I was really young when I read this. I was maybe 13 years old. It was funny reading it again when I am 56.

This was written in 1947 and was filled with the post WWII optimism regarding space travel. It was one of his books written for the young adult science fiction market.

I love how naive it is. It also shows that he completely missed the fall of the educational system in the US.
It also still had Nazi's as the villains!

I have also been working this week on my collection of short stories and read a couple of other collections:

     Philip K. Dick
     Neil Gaiman

--Keep reading!

TUNA!

Word Porn

Fast Friday Indie Interviews: S. L. Bynum

S. L. Bynum

Tell me about yourself, S.L.?

I started writing when I was twelve, and I’m now 26. “Grim Crush” is my first novel, and I just released a second one titled “Dreamvision”. I consider myself a kid-at-heart because I love playing games (board, video) and I like chocolate chip cookies! I also love dancing and warm weather.

Tell me about your current Book:

When she falls in love with a human boy, a grim reaper named Xia must protect him from the Angel of Death, or else his soul will be at risk.

Xia is a seventeen-year-old grim reaper who enjoys doing things her own way. She thinks nothing can be better than having her own scythe and helping the souls of the dead enter purgatory. That is, until she meets Shilah, a Native American boy her age. For some reason, Shilah can see her, while other humans can’t. One of the Rule of Reaping is to never show yourself to the living, but Xia can’t help that Shilah can see her. As she pretends to be human to get close to him, she finds herself falling for him, which breaks another Rule that says reapers can’t get emotionally involved with the living. When she can no longer keep her lie, she tells Shilah what she is and he accepts it, for he has fallen for her too. Just when things seem to be going good for them, Xia’s boss and father, the Angel of Death, realizes she’s been breaking Rules, and now Shilah’s soul is in danger. Xia becomes determined to save Shilah, but can she do it without putting the balance of life and death at risk?

What are you working on now? 

The sequel to Grim Crush!

What is your favorite beverage while you write? 

 Water.

What is your favorite Website? 

Rdio.com. I’m kind of a music buff, and you can listen to entire albums on this site!
Links:




•    Email: slbynum3@gmail.com
•    Amazon: Grim Crush
•    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/authorSLBynum
•    Twitter: https://twitter.com/WriterSLBynum

Thanks for participating!

This is about video but it also works perfectly for novels.


--Orson Wells was kick-ass with scifi!