An Aspiring Writer's Blog - Mandy Calvin's Quill

This certainly was not a part of my plan.   I sighed and stepped out of my old, rusty car.   From the driveway, I looked up at the second...

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey My rating: 5 of 5 stars   What inspired me to read this book was the movie. I had seen ...

The Postman by David Brin My rating: 3 of 5 stars The Postman by David Brin is a science fiction adventure set in a crumbled United Stat...

Happy Fourth of July to everyone in the USA- Mandy Calvin

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie My rating: 4 of 5 stars I will ascend that I had been spoiled by a review before I read t...

The sun is shining, the temperature is rising, the bugs are buzzing, and I decided it's an ideal time to sit indoors and organize my r...

This challenge is an indirect writing exercise.  Indirect because I'm not actually going to write but it's a practice in creative/d...