I would make a terrible demoness. Here it is, nearly Christmas,* and I haven’t managed to tease out what the members of my family want other than in bare dribs and drabs. Is it being raised Midwestern that has made Lee and I this way? “Oh, whatever”? And have we passed this horrible curse of […]
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The end of NaNo approaches…the end of the book approaches…I wonder if these two things are related or if I'll have more to go in Dec. # Powered by Twitter Tools
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Congrats!!: Mumsnet 'Book of the Month' thread on Are We Nearly There Yet? by @BenHatch http://t.co/iUzmbLwH # Went to "Literacy and Movement" night at school w/ Ray last night; it was like watching real life game shows. RUN FOR THAT K! RUN!!! # Time for karate! # Powered by Twitter Tools
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Kill your excuses, Combat naysayers with facts & figures, & Mail your stories like a pro http://t.co/A5SvKVCP # Stuck in #NaNoWriMo #pubwrite #amwriting How to Fail & Keep on Writing: http://t.co/A5SvKVCP # Brain dead. But at 25K for NaNoWriMo. # Hahahaha @AlinaBKlein 😀 Stellar advice. RT “@Michelleiswordy: Writing: Get it all out first. Worry about
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I remember when my daughter, Rachael, first started going to karate, almost two years ago. Oh, man. I was embarrassed. I know now that being embarrassed was kind of a dumb thing to feel, but at the time: embarrassed. She couldn’t stand still. She’d fidget through the whole class. She’d run around in circles. She’d
Nice review! @EmmaHunneyball In time for #Halloween "Tales Told Under The Covers: Zombie Girl Invasion & Other Stories" http://t.co/een6RfMc # I get to be December read of the month at Read2Review….. http://t.co/nYWVtBwO @Read_2_Review # RT @LitaMartin I like your article "kid writer's: stuck for ideas?" http://t.co/cp6INlUb good for parents to pass on to #kids doing
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Liz Barone has a lovely review of Tales Told Under the Covers up: Tales Told Under the Covers features ten short stories for middle graders, but they definitely entertained me on an adult level. I liked that almost every main character had some sort of problem that all kids have, and that they resolved those problems after
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The dreaded question. “So, you’re a writer. What are you writing?” Because you can’t tell the entire story that you’re writing every time someone asks you that question (especially if you’re not finished yet), you have to give them the short version. But how do you come up with a short version? Tell people what
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Miss Emma Honeyball reviewed Tales Told Under the Covers: Zombie Girl Invasion & Other Stories for me and had such nice things to say… These are stories where the kids are in charge. The cohesive family unit is important, but the kids are the ones who are empowered to save the world. The adults are largely helpless.
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Ugh. Yes, exactly. @EmmaHunneyball spent last night awake worrying that the year is running away and I can't keep up. … # Finished Exotics 4 (Exotics 1 is the next book on the publish list) yesterday, getting ready to finish Guinea Pig Apoc this week. # RT! @AshleyMcCollum Yup! True love. RT @rskovach: Love misuse
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