Quote of the Week and the Week to Come

 “When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.” ~ J.M. Barrie

 

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Sir James Matthew Barrie, (May 9, 1860 – June 19, 1937) was a Scottish novelist and acts inspired him to write Kensington Gardens and The Little White Bird, which led to Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up. Barrie was made a baronet by King George V in 1913. Before his death he gave the rights to Peter Pan works to Great Ormond Street playwright, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan. Although he wrote a number of successful novels, after meeting and adopting the Llewelyn Davies boys, these Hospital for Children in London, which still benefits from them today.

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Quote of the Week and Week to Come

"For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded."

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J. M. (Sir James Michael) Barrie (May 9,1860 - June 19,1937)

Peter Pan 

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* The May Letter from the Editor (Debi Archibald)

* Deb McLeod will talk about the Writer as Director

* Kathie Scrimgeour shares Shannon Lawrence's Sweet Success 

Quote of the Week & Week to Come

"The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it." -James M. Barrie, born May 9, 1860 (Author of Peter Pan)

By National Media Museum from UK (J. M. Barrie, 1892.  Uploaded by mrjohncummings) [see page for license], via Wikimedia Commons

This week on Writing From the Peak:

*Letter From the Outgoing Editor

*Vertical Story Arc by Deb McLeod

*Sweet Success - N.K. Travers