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July 19, 2017
What Are You Reading?
What books are you currently reading? Do you have a stack of books on your bedside table? Beside your favorite chair? My dresser looks like a library dumping ground and this is the shelf of items currently checked out from the library. The two books on top of the Star Wars box are both adult […]
July 18, 2017
Brainstorming
Where do I get ideas? I once made the mistake of telling an interviewer that I get my ideas everywhere. The flow can be so invasive, that I’d have to put a bucket over my head to turn it off. That was one line out of a 20 minute interview. Guess which quote she used? […]
July 17, 2017
A New Type of Poem (New to Me Anyway)
I don’t consider myself a poet but I like to dabble. Because of that, I keep an eye out for new-to-me types of poetry. Here is one that Jane Yolen wrote about in her June 19 daily poetry mailing – the Golden Shovel. Terrence Hayes recently created this form in homage to poet Gwendolyn Brooks. […][image error]
Three New Types of Poems (New to Me Anyway)
I don’t consider myself a poet but I like to dabble. Because of that, I keep an eye out for new-to-me types of poetry. Here is one that Jane Yolen wrote about in her June 19 daily poetry mailing – the Golden Shovel. Terrence Hayes recently created this form in homage to poet Gwendolyn Brooks. […][image error]
July 16, 2017
Picture Book: Rewriting is like Home Improvement
While I was working on several work for hire projects, I roughed out two picture books. While I’m pretty happy with the astronaut book, it needs work. The yoga book? If it was a house, I’d say it was a fixer upper. It’s that bad. But that’s okay. I’m going to rewrite. I don’t mean […]
July 13, 2017
STEM Fiction
When you think of STEM books, do you think of both fiction and nonfiction? The fact of the matter is that fiction can be just as useful in teaching young readers about how science works. Fiction just happens to do it while weaving a marvelous made-up plot at the same time. An idea had just […]
July 12, 2017
Purple Prose: Three Thing You Can Do to Banish it from Your Writing
Beware the purple prose, the overblown writing that flies furious through the noon day sun and creeps, sullen and dark, through the midnight depths. Snicker. Sometimes I crack myself up. I was meeting with my critique group and described something as purple prose. Cricket cricket cricket. No one had heard the term before and if […]
July 11, 2017
The Search Engine for Writers: Writer’s Knowledge Base
The Writer’s Knowledge Database is all about helping writers find the information they need to get the job done. I first heard about this search engine three years ago, but hadn’t visited in a while. Elizabeth Spann Craig is a writer who tweets about . . . can you guess . . . writing! In […]
July 10, 2017
Evaluating Possible Writing Jobs
Yesterday I spotted a really interesting infographic on the Make a Living Writing blog. It is a quiz that helps you evaluate whether or not you should take a particular writing gig. This is particularly handy if you are fairly new to free lancing. Why? Because it will help you face some uncomfortable truths. Such […]
July 9, 2017
New Sendak Book
Did you know that a new Maurice Sendak book is in the works? That’s quite an accomplishment given the fact that Sendak died about five years ago. Lynn Caponera, president of the Maurice Sendak Foundation, discovered the manuscript when she was going through the late artist’s files. She found a typewritten manuscript called Presto and […]
