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With the release of The Hobbit and Les Miserables, I have found myself surrounded by people who deem themselves movie critics. They talk about the issues that each movie has, what was right, what was wrong, how they would have done it different, correct, better. I also hear professional movie critics talking about certain actors
Sometimes, in the land of writing, we survive on what if’s – what if I get my dream agent, what if I sign a contract with super publisher, what if my book gets made into a movie. These are great skills because they flesh out our dream, push us when we just want to stop,
This post is late today, but you will all be glad because the crap that I had to write was quickly cleared out when, walking into the school today, I saw two girls, passing a book back and forth between them, giggling, followed by an “Okay, don’t tell me don’t tell me don’t tell me.”
This is less about me and more, for a moment, about my teacher self. I have spent the last week having kids on laptops in my room, writing introductory paragraphs on Google Drive and sharing it with me, having to really flesh out that paragraph before I’ll let them write the next. As always, with
This time last year, I could be found at 5:00 am in the gym, attending a spinning class or lifting or running a few miles. It really did a make a difference in my life. However, 9:00 pm would roll around and I’d fight sleep for a few more minutes, like I had been doing
Writing is a tricky thing sometimes. If we were all embarking on an athletic endeavor, there would be timed tests and ways to see an increase in strength. This is a bit more difficult to assess in writerland. But it is something we need to try to do anyway. We need to see that the
Yes, it’s Halloween. Yes, it’s one day before NaNoWriMo. But that also means we are on the cusp of a time when, as writers, we can lose ourselves in false pretense. Coming up on the holiday season is a time of happiness and serious stress for me. I love the chance to get around family,
Last week, I had a break from school, the kids are old enough that they’d rather be playing with their friends, so I put butt in chair and wrote, edited, tweaked, fixed and poured myself into my WIP. By the end of my break, though, I was exhausted. I had sufficiently emptied my creative gas
I’ve been thinking about the blogging life a bit lately. I completely love it and the community that I have been able to be a part of because of it. And, for where I’m at right now, I think what I’m doing is working. But if I let myself dream just a little, and pretend
I know, I’ve talked about this before, and so have lots of people. But it really is a bit like the elementary teachers explaining over and over the reason kids need to read or be read to 20 minutes a night. Because if we don’t, nothing else we do will matter. Sure, you could be
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