Quote of the Week and the Week to Come

Source: Wikipedia & Google

Sidney Sheldon (February 11, 1917 – January 30, 2007) was an American writer and producer. He came to prominence in the 1930s, first working on Broadway plays and then in motion pictures, notably writing the successful comedy The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer (1947) which earned him an Academy Award. He went on to work in television, where his works spanned a 20-year period during which he created The Patty Duke Show(1963–66), I Dream of Jeannie (1965–70) and Hart to Hart (1979–84). He became most famous after he turned 50 and began writing best-selling romantic suspense novels, such as Master of the Game (1982), The Other Side of Midnight (1973) and Rage of Angels (1980). He is the seventh best-selling fiction writer of all time.

This week on Writing from the Peak

Aug 28          Inside Directing a Writer’s Conference by MB Partlow

Aug 30          Exiting Editor’s Favorite Quotes

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“Whatever you are meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”  ~ Doris Lessing

Source: Google, You Tube and Biography

Doris May Lessing, (October 22, 1919—November 17, 2013) was a British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer. Winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature, Doris Lessing wrote across a range of genres and detailed the conflicts inherent to a changing society.

This week on Writing from the Peak:

August 14     Meet Member Wes Redfield by Kathie Scrimgeour

August 16     Writing while on Vacation by M.B. Partlow

August 18     Sweet Success Celebrates Mike Befeler

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“A writer is a world trapped in a person.” ~ Victor Hugo

Victor Marie Hugo, (February 26, 1802-1885) was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. Hugo is considered to be one of the greatest and best-known French writers.

Source: Britannica

This week on Writing from the Peak:

Aug 7            Letter from the Editor   Donnell Ann Bell

Aug 9            PPW Historical blog    Jason Evans

Aug 11          Sweet Success celebrates R.T. Lawton

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“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.” ~ Lloyd Alexander

Lloyd Alexander Source: Wikipedia

Lloyd Chudley Alexander (January 30, 1924 – May 17, 2007) was an American author of more than forty books, primarily fantasy novels for children and young adults. His most famous work is The Chronicles of Prydain, a series of five high fantasy novels whose conclusion, The High King, was awarded the 1969 Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature. He won U.S. National Book Awards in 1971 and 1982.

This Week on Writing from the Peak:

July 31        Improve your writing through Improv     By: Deb Courtney

Aug 2          The Writing Coach Deb McLeod

Aug 4          Pikes Peak Writers Monthly Events

                                                    

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“A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.” ~ Richard Bach

Richard Bach: Source Wikipedia

Richard David Bach, June 23, 1936, is an American writer. Bach is widely known as the author of some hugely popular 1970s best-sellers, including Jonathan Livingston Seagull and Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah.     

     

This Week on Writing from the Peak

July 24              Talking Shorts  Review of PPWC Short Story Panel    Shannon Lawrence

July 26              Business of Writing: The Importance of Backstory       Linda Rohrbough

July 28              Sweet Success

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“I think new writers are too worried that it has all been said before. Sure it has, but not by you.” ~Asha Dornfest

Source: Google & Pinterest Quotes

Asha Dornfest is a writer, parent, and insistent optimist living in Portland, Oregon. She is the author of PARENT HACKS, co-author of MINIMALIST PARENTING, and co-host of the Edit Your Life podcast. 

This week on Writing from the Peak

June 19        Scholarship Recipient Mason J. Torall

June 21        One Day with Donald Maass/2017 PPWC by Catherine Dilts

June 23        Sweet Success Celebrates Barbara Nickless

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“And, what do you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right.” ~ Ray Bradbury

Source Wikipedia

Ray Douglas Bradbury (August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012) was an American author and screenwriter. He worked in a variety of genres, including fantasy, science fiction, horror and mystery fiction.

Widely known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953), and his science fiction and horror story collections The Martian Chronicles (1950), The Illustrated Man (1951), and I Sing the Body Electric (1969), Bradbury was one of the most celebrated 20th- and 21st-century American writers. While most of his best-known work is in speculative fiction, he also wrote in other genres, such as the coming-of-age novel Dandelion Wine (1957) or the fictionalized memoir Green Shadows, White Whale (1992).

Recipient of numerous awards, including a 2007 Pulitzer Citation, Bradbury also wrote and consulted on screenplays and television scripts, including Moby Dick and It Came from Outer Space. Many of his works were adapted to comic book, television and film formats.

On his death in 2012, The New York Times called Bradbury "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream."

This week on Writing from the Peak:

June 12        Scholarship Recipient Beth Malone

June 14        PPW's History Series by Jason Evans

June 16        Sweet Success Celebrates Barbara Nickless

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“If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. Or, if proper English gets in the way, it may have to go. I can’t allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative.” ~ Elmore Leonard

Source: Wikipedia

Elmore John Leonard Jr. (October 11, 1925 – August 20, 2013) was an American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter. His earliest novels, published in the 1950s, were Westerns, but he went on to specialize in crime fiction and suspense thrillers, many of which have been adapted into motion pictures.

Among his best-known works are Get Shorty, Out of Sight, Swag, Hombre, Mr. Majestyk, and Rum Punch (adapted for the movie Jackie Brown). Leonard's writings include short stories that became the films 3:10 to Yuma and The Tall T, as well as the FX television series Justified.

This week on Writing from the Peak:

June 5          Letter from the Editor – Donnell Ann Bell

June 7          The Writing Coach Deb McLeod

June 9          Sweet Success Celebrates JL Fields

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“I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged.”   ~ Erica Jong

Erica Jong Sources Google & Wikipedia

Erica Jong (née Mann; born March 26, 1942) is an American novelist and poet, known particularly for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying. The book became famously controversial for its attitudes towards female sexuality and figured prominently in the development of second-wave feminism. According to Washington Post, it has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide.

This Week on Writing from the Peak:

March 13      Action Cures Fear by Stacy S. Jensen

March 15      Pikes Peak Writer Conference Prequel by Patrick Hester

March 17      Sweet Success Celebrates L.S. Hawker

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“You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.”  ~ Octavia E. Butler 

Octavia E. Butler Source: Wikipedia and Google

Octavia Estelle Butler (June 22, 1947 – Feb. 24, 2006) was an American science fiction writer. A multiple recipient of both the Hugo and Nebula awards, Butler was one of the best-known women in the field. In 1995, she became the first science fiction writer to receive the MacArthur Fellowship, nicknamed the "Genius Grant"

This week on Writing from the Peak:

March 6        Letter from the Editor – Donnell Ann Bell

March 8        Writing the Historical Series – Jason Evans

March 10      Sweet Success Celebrates Mike Befeler

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Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art. ~ Leonardo da Vinci

Source: Wikipedia -- Artist Francesco Melzi 

Leonard di ser Piero da Vinci, April 1452-May 1519, was more commonly known as Leonard da Vinci or simply Leonardo. He was an Italian polymath whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history and cartography. He is widely considered the greatest painter of all time, and many historians and scholars regard Leonardo as the prime example of a “Universal Genius” or Renaissance Man.

This week on Writing from the Peak:

Jan 9            Meet the Member J.T. Evans

Jan 11          Writing your History Novel by Jason Evans (Blog 1)

Jan 13          Sweet Success Celebrates Patrick Hester

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“You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.” ~F. Scott Fitzgerald

Source: Wikipedia Pubic Domain

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (Sep. 24, 1896 – Dec. 21, 1940), known professionally as F. Scott Fitzgerald, was an American novelist and short story writer whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. While he achieved limited success in his lifetime, he is now widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20^th century. Considered a member of the “Lost Generation” of the 1920s he finished four novels: This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby, and Tender is the Night. A fifth, unfinished novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon, was published posthumously.

This week on Writing from the Peak

Dec. 26   Desert Reflections by Darby Karchut

Dec. 28   Sit-Stand Desks & Affordable Options by Catherine Dilts

Dec. 30  Sweet Success Celebrates Laura Disilverio

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Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.   ~ Charles de Lint

Source: Wikipedia

Charles de Lint (born Dec. 22, 1951), is a Canadian writer, married to musician Mary Ann Harris. He is widely credited as one of the first authors of urban fiction. As an essayist/critic/folklorist he writes book reviews for The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. He’s also been a judge for the Nebula Award, The World Fantasy Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Award and Bram Stoker Award. He has also taught creative writing workshops in Canada and the United states and served as writer in residence for two public libraries in Ottawa 

This week on Writing from the Peak

Dec. 19   Writing Violence in Fiction by Will Burcher

Dec. 21   Develop your Character through Voice by Karen Albright Lin

Dec. 23   Sweet Success Celebrates Darby Karchut

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“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn. ~ Anne Frank

Source: Wikipedia

Annelies Marie Frank, born June, 1929, died 1945, was a German-born diarist and writer. One of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust, she gained fame posthumously following the publication of her diary, The Diary of Anne Frank.

This week on Writing from the Peak:

Dec. 12         Meet the Member Tena Stetler

Dec. 14         A Lesson in History by Jason Evans

Dec. 16         Sweet Success Celebrates K.D. Wagers

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No tears in the writer;  No tears in the reader.

No surprise for the writer; No surprise for the reader. 

                                                             ~Robert Frost

Robert Frost Source: Wikipedia

Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was one of the most popular and critically respected American poets of the twentieth century.

This week on Writing from the Peak:


Nov. 7     Letter from the Editor, Donnell Ann Bell


Nov. 9     Pikes Peak Writers History Column by Jason Evans


Nov. 11   Sweet Success Farewell & Introduction

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“The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best and therefore never scrutinize or question.” Stephen Jay Gould

Source: Wikipedia, Brainy Quotes

Stephen Jay Gould Sep 10, 1941 – May 20, 2002, author of Dinosaur in a Haystack, was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist and historian of science.

Gould's most significant contribution to evolutionary biology was the theory of punctuated equilibrium, which he developed with Niles Eldredge in 1972.

Gould was known by the general public mainly from his 300 popular essays in the magazine Natural History written both for the specialist and non-specialist. In April 2000, the US Library of Congress named him a “Living Legend.”

This week on Writing from the Peak:

Sep 26   Readers Advisory: Through the Eyes of Librarian  Summer Greenwood

Sep 28   Launching a Book? Welcome to the Jungle   K.L. Cooper

Sep 30   Sweet Success Celebrates Pam McCutcheon

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"My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer." ~ Taylor Caldwell

Source: Wikipedia & Brainy Quotes

Taylor Caldwell (Sep. 7, 1900 – Aug. 30, 1985) was an American novelist and prolific author of popular fiction, also known by the pen names Marcus Holland and Max Reiner, and by her married name of J. Miriam Reback.

In her fiction, she often used real historical events or persons. Taylor Caldwell's best-known works include Dynasty of Death, Dear and Glorious Physician (about Saint Luke), Ceremony of the Innocent, Pillar of Iron, The Earth is the Lord's (about Genghis Khan) and Captains and the Kings. Her last major novel, Answer As a Man, appeared in 1980.

This week on Writing from the Peak:

Sep 19          Dear Annie    Pikes Peak Writers Writer Advice Column by Ann S. Hill

Sep 21          Ergonomics Series Part 2 Tired Eyes & Aching Wrists by Catherine Dilts

Sep 23          Sweet Success Celebrates Donnell Ann Bell & Audio Book

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“The brain may take advice, but not the heart.” ~ Truman Capote

Source Wikepedia

Truman Garcia Capote, Sep. 30, 1924 – Aug. 25, 1984, ) was an American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and actor, many of whose short stories, novels, plays, and nonfiction are recognized literary classics, including the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958) and the true crime novel In Cold Blood (1966), which he labeled a "nonfiction novel". At least 20 films and television dramas have been produced of Capote novels, stories, and plays.

This week on Writing from the Peak

Sep 12     What’s in it for you? The Zebulon    by Dawn Smit

Sep 14     Sharing Literary Citizenship by Jason Evans

Sep 16     Sweet Success Celebrates Darby Karchut aka Darby Kaye

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“The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.” ~ Roald Dahl

Source Wikipedia and Brainy Quotes

Roald Dahl, born Sep 13, 1916 – Nov. 23, 1990 was a British fighter pilot, short story writer, screenplay writer and novelist. His books have sold over 250 million copies worldwide.  His awards for contribution to literature include the 1983 World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, and the British Book Awards' Children's Author of the Year in 1990. In 2008, The Times placed Dahl 16th on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".

Dahl's short stories are known for their unexpected endings and his children's books for their unsentimental, macabre, often darkly comic mood, featuring villainous adult enemies of the child characters. His books champion the kind-hearted, and feature an underlying warm sentiment. Dahl's works for children include James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, The Witches, Fantastic Mr Fox, The BFG, The Twits and George's Marvellous Medicine. His adult works include Tales of the Unexpected.

This week on Writing from the Peak:

September 5    Letter from the Editor Donnell Ann Bell

September 6    Open Call for Board Members by M.B. Partlow

September 7    The Writing Coach Deb McLeod

September 8    PPW’s Call for Volunteers by MB. Partlow

September 9    Sweet Success Celebrates Margaret Mizushima