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Toronto MG/YA Writers tweetup last night

Had so much fun getting together with some of the Toronto MG/YA Writers group last night at The Spotted Dick near Yonge & Bloor. We all met via Twitter and Claudia Osmond. I was the only one who hadn't yet published a kidlit book but the others were SO encouraging; I feel pretty lucky to [...:]

NaNoWriMo Day 5: Fresh Air

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NaNoWriMo Day 4: Competitive

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Index of all the 2009 NaNoWriMo cartoons so far.
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NaNoWriMo: Day 3 – Moxie and Ed

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86 of you participated in my character naming poll, and "Moxie and Ed" won by TWO VOTES.
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Quick E-Reading Device Survey (2 questions)

Whether or not you own or are interested in e-reading devices like the Kindle, Sony Reader and (not yet released) Apple tablet, I'd really appreciate it if you'd take this 2-question e-reader survey, thanks!
I'll post the results online soon.

NaNoWrimo: Day 2 – Inspiration

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Thanks for all the name suggestions for my characters! I'm torn between two of them, so I'd appreciate it if you'd help me by voting for one or the other. I'll go with whatever the majority decides.
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It's Picture Book Idea month!

For all you aspiring (or experienced) picture book authors out there: are you up to the challenge of coming up with one picture book idea a day? For more info, see PiBoIdMo is Here! on Tara Lazar's blog.
I'm going to be doing this challenge as well as NaNoWriMo. I was already coming up with [...:]

NaNoWriMo: Day 1 – The dangers of overediting

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Any suggestions for names for these characters? They need to be pretty short, maximum 4 or 5 characters each.

Daylight savings time

Woke up this morning at my usual time (around 6 am), made my usual breakfast (oatmeal), descended into my Cave (had to use my iPhone as a flashlight since it's still dark out), fired up my computer to check on the world and overuse parentheses…only to discover that we were supposed to turn back our [...:]

Ah, behold the leaf…

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