I woke up this morning and went straight to my manuscript. I had a bad dream, but it made me think of a scene for my story and I didn’t want to miss it. It has been foggy and cold the last few days, so I decided to have a fire in the fireplace. TheContinue reading “The Mentor of #NaNoWriMo Day 7”
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Planning for #NaNoWriMo? Here’s a FREE Daily Planner for November!
NaNoWriMo 2019 November is almost here and for a lot of the writing community that means it’s time for National Novel Writing Month. Since I’ve been trying to focus on revisions and actually finishing a novel, I told myself I wasn’t going to do it this year unless an exciting story that I couldn’t refuseContinue reading “Planning for #NaNoWriMo? Here’s a FREE Daily Planner for November!”
Happy May! A recap of my April adventures and what’s next
I want to start by saying thank you to all of the organizers of NaPoWriMo and A to Z Challenge and the poets of dVerse. And the poets that included my poems in their lists, especially David Ellis at Too Full To Write. I also want to thank everyone who read my poems and leftContinue reading “Happy May! A recap of my April adventures and what’s next”
dVerse Monday Haibun: Take a walk
And as a treat for finishing NaPoWriMo and the A to Z Challenge, I took the advice of the prompt at dVerse Poets Pub and took a walk. Self and Setting For this respite, my reward for diligence, I grab my lens, aspiring to share my view. I find myself not walking, but squatting,Continue reading “dVerse Monday Haibun: Take a walk”
New Gator McBumpypants Picture Book Now Available!
Gator McBumpypants in Shelley Comes Out Of Her Shell is a sweet story about the challenges of making new friends. It also covers themes such as empathy and knowing when to ask for help. Last year, I designed and made a little box turtle. I had an online contest to name the turtle and theContinue reading “New Gator McBumpypants Picture Book Now Available!”
#Writober Day 10: Voyeuristic
There is so much story in this image. Why is Dad outside, in a crazy patio garden, looking in on his exhausted family? Is that even Dad? This image makes me think of the dysfunctional family in Close Encounters Of The Third Kind when Dad is throwing the plants into the kitchen to make hisContinue reading “#Writober Day 10: Voyeuristic”
#Writober Day 7: The Upside-down
What would life be like if gravity worked backwards somehow? Or there was no gravity as we understand it? Or a race of people whose heads pulled downward created an earth in the sky? What story does this image say to you? #vss Last night, I had fun writing a very short story (a storyContinue reading “#Writober Day 7: The Upside-down”
Another First: McKenzie’s New Boyfriend
McKenzie’s New Boyfriend is my second story published by Fictional Pairings. They paired my story with a song called Recover by Second Still. I’m listening to it while I write this. It feels perfect for my story–spacey road trip–and on Second Still’s site it says the album was released on my birthday this year (coincidence?).Continue reading “Another First: McKenzie’s New Boyfriend”
Book Spine Poems: Happy #NationalPoetryMonth
This morning, I came across an article in School Library Journal called Here’s How You Make a Book Spine Poem with Your Students/Patrons by Travis Jonker The concept is simple, fun and it inspired me. Here are my poems, created from my bookshelf in celebration of National Poetry Month. I hope you will join meContinue reading “Book Spine Poems: Happy #NationalPoetryMonth”
A Quick Note of Thanks
I want to thank Renee at Mother Daughter Book Review for allowing me to guest post and for making the post look so lovely. I did research on photography as illustration in children’s picture books and found an interested study that illuminated a hybrid genre. I hope you’ll take a moment to click on theContinue reading “A Quick Note of Thanks”
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