'Children's writing' Category
The Light at the End of the Tunnel
The puzzles for all current projects are finished. Some are still in the hands of young testers and my critique group, but I expect to do the final polish tomorrow and send the last batch on their way.
In the meantime, I’ve been working on taxes. Like most people, I don’t enjoy tax time, although I […]Spring, or Something Like It
The change detector has detected a change in the sun. It’s back in a noticeable way. It’s at a height that blasts in our windows all morning, and heats up the house and deck. It’s our first spring with a deck. I shoveled the snow off a few days ago so that everything would melt […]
Moving On to AK Puzzles
The sports puzzles are done, and I’m about halfway through the second project for Taku Graphics and Alaska Geographic. So, two down and one to go, and still plenty of fun to be had.
The first project for Taku was–get this!–sudoku puzzles. Now, sudoku puzzles aren’t something I want to try to make up in my […]Puzzle Process
I use a lot of scrap paper when I craft puzzles. I save every bit of marginally useful paper I get my hands on: half-empty pages, junk mail, etc. I’m a huge fan of trees and clean air, so I try very hard not to waste paper.
One puzzle today took some serious finagling of […]They’re Here!
My copies of Hogsqueal’s Activity Book and Thimbletack’s Activity Book arrived. Yippee!
They look very slick. Hats off to the designers; they did a great job. Sometimes I wish I were a graphic designer. It looks like a fun job, and I get pleasure out of a good design.
Anywho, there were some bumps along this project […]Research Pitfalls
Thus far, I’ve spent more time researching sports facts and trivia than I’ve spent creating puzzles. Research is addictive, as I think most non-fiction writers will attest. It’s a little like gambling or gold panning: You never know when you’ll hit the jackpot, or find that fabulous nugget of info that will propel your work […]
Still Puzzling
Yesterday, my break from sports puzzles was natural history puzzles. Today, my break from sports puzzles was a needlework puzzle. Hm, a busman’s holiday? I dug out our “new” puzzle design that was about half-stitched in early December and remains about half-stitched today.
Before we left in December, I took the piece off the frame, […]Puzzles, Puzzles, and More Puzzles
It’s all puzzles all the time around here right now. Not a bad way to spend a day, eh?
I am creating puzzles for the Sports Illustrated for Kids 2009 Year in Sports. No, I’m not predicting the future, and I don’t know who will win the 2009 World Series, etc. The contents of the book […]Great Find Not At The Show!
Right across from the Long Beach Convention Center is a Borders bookstore. On Thursday, we had a few hours between setting up the Funk & Weber Designs booth and the Galleria event which I was to attend, so Mike, Barb (sister-in-law and booth decorator), and I walked along the beach and around town. We stopped […]
Great Show Find!
On the second day of the TNNA NeedleArts Market, I went to the convention center an hour early so that I could cruise through some of the aisles and see the displays. Funk & Weber Designs had a booth, so during show hours I was tied to it. That’s the problem with exhibiting: unless you […]
