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M.L. Shanahan
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Something would watch the children at night. It wasn’t human, it was something from the other side.
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Yo! Ho! Yo! Ho! It’s A Writer’s Life For Me
I thought I’d start my first blog entry on Goodreads by writing about how I get my ideas as an author.
Out of all the questions readers, friends and strangers ask me, the most frequent question is how do you get your ideas?
Some people have said to me that they cannot even come up with a character let alone an entire story.
I think writing is a therapeutic way of letting out your emotions, feeling Read more of this blog post »
Out of all the questions readers, friends and strangers ask me, the most frequent question is how do you get your ideas?
Some people have said to me that they cannot even come up with a character let alone an entire story.
I think writing is a therapeutic way of letting out your emotions, feeling Read more of this blog post »
“We all have a voice. Some a whisper, some a roar.
If you can roar, roar for others.
If you can only whisper, keep trying.
Every roar started small.”
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If you can roar, roar for others.
If you can only whisper, keep trying.
Every roar started small.”
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“Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
― Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
― Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
“And it was then Cecilia gave orally what was to be her only form of suicide note, and a useless one at that, because she was going to live: “Obviously, Doctor,” she said, “you’ve never been a thirteen-year-old girl.”
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“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
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