Roxannebarbour

A blog to promote my novels, and post quotations, and articles on science, mathematics, space.
MY BLOGS
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Roxanne Barbour, Author
http://roxannebarbour.wordpress.com/
A blog to promote my novels, and also post quotations, articles about science, mathematics, space.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 147 )
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Quotation – June 24, 2017
We, and I think I’m speaking for many writers, don’t know what it is that sometimes comes to make our books alive. All we can do is to write dutifully and day... Read more
Posted on 25 June 2017 CREATIVITY, SCIENCE -
Quotation – June 21, 2017
The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been... Read more
Posted on 21 June 2017 CREATIVITY, SCIENCE -
Quotation – June 20, 2017
Life can’t ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer’s lover until death–fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold,... Read more
Posted on 20 June 2017 CREATIVITY, SCIENCE -
Quotation – June 16, 2017
Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth is such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.Mar... Read more
Posted on 16 June 2017 CREATIVITY, SCIENCE -
Time Travel – Is It Possible?
New Research Shows That Time Travel Is Mathematically Possible via Futurism.com IN BRIEF Physicists have developed a new mathematical model that shows how time... Read more
Posted on 13 June 2017 CREATIVITY, SCIENCE -
Quotation – June 9, 2017
The character on the page determines the prose–its music, its rhythms, the range and limit of its vocabulary–yet, at the outset at least, I determine the... Read more
Posted on 10 June 2017 CREATIVITY, SCIENCE -
Quotation – June 7, 2017
When you are describing, A shape, or sound, or tint; Don’t state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things, With a sort of menta... Read more
Posted on 08 June 2017 CREATIVITY, SCIENCE -
Quotation – June 6, 2017
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. Read more
Posted on 07 June 2017 CREATIVITY, SCIENCE -
Notable Scientist – Dr. Vera Rubin
Dr. Vera RubinJuly 1928 – December 2016A visionary astronomer who played an instrumental role in confirming the existence of dark matter, Dr. Vera Rubin’s... Read more
Posted on 27 May 2017 CREATIVITY, SCIENCE -
Quotation – May 26, 2017
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the... Read more
Posted on 27 May 2017 CREATIVITY, SCIENCE -
Quotation – May 24, 2017
An outline is crucial. It saves so much time. When you write suspense, you have to know where you’re going because you have to drop little hints along the way.... Read more
Posted on 25 May 2017 CREATIVITY, SCIENCE -
Quotation – May 23, 2017
Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time.Leonard BernsteinAn Alien Perspective... Read more
Posted on 24 May 2017 CREATIVITY, SCIENCE -
Quotation – May 17, 2017
Today is mine. It is unique. Nobody in the world has one exactly like it. It holds the sum of all my past experiences and all my future potential. I can fill... Read more
Posted on 17 May 2017 CREATIVITY, SCIENCE -
Quotation – May 14, 2017
The most important thing is you can’t write what you wouldn’t read for pleasure. It’s a mistake to analyze the market thinking you can write whatever is hot. Read more
Posted on 14 May 2017 CREATIVITY, SCIENCE -
Quotation – May 8, 2017
I have never felt like I was creating anything. For me, writing is like walking through a desert and all at once, poking up through the hard pan, I see the top... Read more
Posted on 08 May 2017 CREATIVITY, SCIENCE -
An Alien Perspective – Smashwords Coupon
An Alien Perspective ebook now available on Smashwords at 33% off!Use coupon code: AG26Thttps://www.smashwords.com/books/view/719283 Advertisements Read more
Posted on 24 April 2017 CREATIVITY, SCIENCE -
Quotation – April 20, 2017
When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stone cutter, hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Read more
Posted on 20 April 2017 CREATIVITY, SCIENCE -
Quotation – April 18, 2017
Inevitably, you react to your own work–you like it, you don’t like it, you think it’s interesting or boring–and it is difficult to accept that those reactions... Read more
Posted on 18 April 2017 CREATIVITY, SCIENCE -
Minimalist Genre Poetry #1
I am the author of the following published genre poetry. Enjoy!sunspots erupt corruption the Spring of change ……………..[scifaiku published in SCIFAIKUEST (print... Read more
Posted on 18 January 2016 CREATIVITY, SCIENCE -
Quotation: April 14, 2015
“– it was his business to help them play. He could think of nothing better to do with his life, for he knew that when they felt free to play, their souls showed... Read more
Posted on 15 April 2015 CREATIVITY, SCIENCE