Heavy: If you are interested in middle grade historical fiction (the genre in which my chapter book will live), you must read Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli. Lisa Wheeler (www.lisawheelerbooks.com) recommended it to me and she was right on. It’s a powerful, heart-pounding, shocking account of the atrocities of WWII told by a 6 or 7… Read more »
Yawn…Just a bit sleepy. You ask, why so sleepy this early in the day? Well, a new character was mucking about in my head and instead of getting my important shut-eye, I was up at 3:00am trying to listen to the little imp. About 4:30am, I cracked open my new copy of Writing Picture Books by Ann Whitford… Read more »
Alice Pope at www.cwim.blogspot.com referenced a word counting tool at Write Words, a Writer’s Community website http://www.writewords.org.uk/ that I tried on my longest manuscript. It’s easy to do; just paste in your manuscript and in a flash (actually quicker than a flash), it counts the number of incidences of words or phrases. After I got over the number of incidences of the… Read more »
Boni Ashburn blogged about Tara Lazar’s month long adventure: PiBoIdMo wherein authors share their ideas about ideas, writers gather their own ideas during the month, submit them, and possibly, maybe win a review by an agent. Cool, huh? Check it out. http://taralazar.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/piboidmo-is-here/Plus, you get this nifty badge created by Ryan Hipp to display on your website. I… Read more »
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