'Children’s writing' Category
Winter Blog Blast Tour
For several years, Colleen over at the Chasing Ray blog has been organizing twice-a-year author blog tours. Every day for a week, five or six authors are interviewed on five or six kidlit blogs. Yesterday was the beginning of the 2009 Winter Blog Blast Tour. Having a winter blast. I look forward to these every [...]
NaNo Update
Well, as of this moment, I’m two days behind in my word count. Gak! It’s not an insurmountable deficit, but I hate playing catch-up, especially as we enter the dark forest of the second and third weeks. Things usually slow down in here as we wander and get lost, so making up words could be [...]
NaNoWriMo
I hit 5,000 words today. I’m not yet on a story trajectory, but rather scrambling around in search of plot and character pieces that fit together somehow. It’s rather like dumping pieces from two dozen jigsaw puzzles on the table and trying to put one together by the end of the month. There are no [...]
Odds and Ends
We are back at the old homestead, ready to hibernate for a few months. There’s only an inch of snow on the ground, but brrr! it’s cold here. Time for some new socks. Mike is not keen on the way I match socks. Too bad, so sad. That’s why I make them for me. NaNoWriMo [...]
Books for Libraries
I call this my Spider finish. I admit it, I love it! Yep, it’s one we learn in the Bookmarks 101 class. I’m calling this a reversible bookmark. The back doesn’t look like the front, but it’s cool in its own right, so I didn’t cover it. It’s a light and lacy bookmark. The Class [...]
Reading and Writing
Today is The National Day on Writing. This is brand spanking new, just voted into existence on October 8, 2009. I don’t know any details about how it’s to be celebrated or recognized, but what do you say we check it out? It’s also Teen Read Week. This year’s theme is Read Beyond Reality @ [...]
Different Perspectives
Shelly made some interesting and valid comments on last Sunday’s Reading Roundup. They spawned a number of seemingly random thoughts for me. How does reading a kids’ book from a parents’ perspective differ from reading it merely as an adult? A writing friend once urged me to write as much as possible before having kids [...]
Winter and Writing
As I prepare for and anticipate winter, I look forward to a return to novel writing and other long projects. In my mind, summer is for short writing and winter is for long writing. I guess summer has more distractions. I’m busier. Even when I carve out writing time, my brain can’t seem to handle [...]
Making Connections
I love making connections. Can I connect anything and everything to needlework or writing? I kind of think I can. I took this picture today. Granted, I gathered the leaves and placed them together for the shot, but I didn’t paint the leaves. Though the overall color of the trees is still green, if you [...]
Partners in Crime…
…mystery, romance, fantasy, puzzles, picture books, novels, poems, and more. Six years plus. More than 312 weeks. More than 2,190 days. That’s how long my online critique group has been together. I can hardly believe it. Except for two weeks over Christmas, something has been submitted for critique every week, often two things. We’ve read [...]
, by Ellen Ruppel Shell
, by Elizabeth Strout.
