HO! HO! HO! Holiday Picture Book Peek Week Free critiques of select PB manuscripts – including those wretched rhymers (Yup, 3 of my upcoming PBs are written in verse! It begins December 14th, and I’ve changed up the format a bit. Here’s how it will work: Sign up for a critique by entering your PB… Read more »
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Pay it Forward Friday – Bridget Zinn Auction
Bridget’s friends have done it again. Please check out the online auction – Bridget Kicks Cancer – for my fellow author and librarian Bridget Zinn. From the auction website: “All proceeds from this auction will go to Bridget Zinn and Barrett Dowell. Bridget is a 32-year-old author and librarian who was diagnosed with colon cancer… Read more »
I’m Pickled Tink …
… drunk with excitement, that is. I’ve got another cover.
Talking about Titles – More Links
A few more folks are talking about titles: Jill Corcoran, Literary Agent – your title is your billboard.Editorial Anonymous – a fabulous title can move you to the top of the slush. See my original post for more discussion on the importance of titles.
Use Directed Freewriting to Flesh out Your Characters
I’ve found that my single most useful tool for fleshing out a character – better than any lists or profile sheets – is simply freewriting in the character’s first person voice. But rather than sitting in front of a blank screen only to fill it with details of eye color, hair color and family history,… Read more »
Shhhhh! I’m NaNoing.
Sorry it’s been a little quiet around the “Romp” lately. I’ve been NaNoing. I just hit 30K words and I think I’ve found my ideal daily word count – 2500/day. It keeps me in character for a few hours. It stretches me. It feels hard but doable. It knocks off a couple of short chapters,… Read more »
Pay it Forward Friday – FRED
I just read about FRED, Fathers Ready Every Day, yesterday in my local paper. As a project designed by Texas A&M, FRED’s goal is to encourage father-child involvement and daily rituals of bonding and learning between children and positive male role models. The website provides a reading log and other tools to get started. Pass… Read more »
John Green on NaNoWriMo
Whether you’re writing a novel this month or not, you’re gonna love this!
Maggie Stiefvater’s Pre NaNoWriMo Process
Maggie Stiefvater, prolific author of LAMENT, SHIVER and BALLAD is a NaNoWriMo success story. Maggie describes her novel planning process in detail in her blog. Check it out. Really good stuff!
Pay it Forward Friday: David Macinnis Gill and his Halloween Teen Read
Yesterday I stopped by the website of one of my crit buddies, David Macinnis Gill. It had been a while since I’d visited and I was blown away with the “busy-ness” of it all. I adore “busy” websites because they give me that amusement park feel. Maybe that’s not a fair comparison, because some amusement… Read more »
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