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>A Writing Exercise
> ****Congratulations to Shannon Iverson who won the Free Book Friday contest! We’ll have a new free book offer this Friday, so come back and comment for your chance to take home a new book!****...
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>Freebie Friday Goes Hip-Hop
> I am thrilled to share today’s freebie with all of you. It is not a book this week, but as a writing teacher, I am super excited about this one, guys, and I know you are going to love it. Earlier...
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>Writing Exercise: Reimagine Something
>Hello, Writerlings! Hope you all had a fabulous weekend. I didn’t get a single word typed this weekend, so I was kind of disappointed. But, I had lots of fun with family, so that makes up for a...
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Writing Exercise: Inanimate Perspective
>***Congratulations to Amy B! She won the Barnes and Noble gift card prize from Sarah Treu! Watch on Wednesday for a new book giveaway!*** Did you ever imagine your toys were secretly alive? Dozens...
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Writing Exercise: Describing a Setting
I had a friend ask me today, “How do [writers] come up with all the details? When I’m reading something and the author is describing every last little detail about something, I’m just in awe because I...
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Ask an Author: Roger Eschbacher
Ask an Author by Roger Eschbacher Hey you guys! My name is Roger Eschbacher and I write cartoons for a living. These days I’m working on two shows – The Littlest Pet Shop and Scooby Doo, Mystery...
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Writing Club: Describing a Setting
Yesterday I met with young writers at the Main Library in Little Rock, Arkansas for our first ever NaNoWriMo group. I was blown away by the diverse group that showed up to write with us. After a long...
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Writing Club: Got Plot?
Last week I promised the coolest young writers in town that I would post our writing club lesson here. Then… well, then a lot of amazing things happened to me and I got a little distracted. I can’t...
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Poem In My Pocket
Today is national “Poem In Your Pocket Day”, a day for normal folks like you and me to celebrate poetry in the best possible way – by sharing it with others. Although I don’t normally write poetry, I...
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Advice to New Authors From the YA Author Club
This week the YA Author Club is sharing insights into the editing process. All the authors in the YA Author Club are indie authors, so our experiences apply most especially to those authors looking...
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Filling the Well
Since we returned home from our summer of adventure, I’ve been writing like a girl on fire. It’s been powerful and cathartic, filling me with a sudden clarity of purpose after five years of inner soul...
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Retreat
Last week was a roller coaster. Let me back up. This year I decided to pursue writing with a new intensity and a greater focus. I set goals. I made plans. I took risk. And I set things in motion. Last...
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The Question
It took me a long time to figure out who I was and why I am here. As a friend once said, “I was trying to live all the lives.” But you only get one. Just one life, just one chance to make something...
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Sweet powder tiramisu gummi bears. Danish ice cream jelly-o tiramisu muffin toffee gummies. Icing tootsie roll liquorice toffee gummies. Marshmallow icing pudding pie. Cheesecake soufflé tart biscuit...
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The Northern Mistery
During the rest of that day there was no other adventure to mar the peace of their journey. Once, indeed, the Tin Woodman stepped upon a beetle that was crawling along the road, and killed the poor...
View ArticleThe Nebulae Journey
Shores of the cosmic ocean. Hearts of the stars. Vanquish the impossible Sea of Tranquility sed quia non numquam eius modi tempora incidunt ut labore et dolore magnam aliquam quaerat voluptatem. Ut...
View ArticleA Joyous Mountain Walk
Galaxies Sea of Tranquility galaxies! Rig Veda a still more glorious dawn awaits dream of the mind’s eye the sky calls to us citizens of distant epochs Euclid, quasar qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit...
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