Congratulations to Linda Andersen who won a copy of Steering Toward Normal by Rebecca Petruck. Two weeks ago I attended the Table Rock Writers Retreat in Wildacres, NC and participated in John Claude Bemis' class on Writing for Children and Young Adults. It was an inspriational week that left me excited and raring to dig… Continue reading Gifts from John Bemis– Part I
In last week's blog I shared the writing exercise which Rebecca Petruck, my writing coach, gave me. She instructed me to think about, "the difference between rote description, and description that reveals something about the character. When you describe the external world around them, it has to be in order to reflect how they interpret it, what it means to… Continue reading A Stab at Internalization: Lillie's POV
Congratulations to Linda Phillips, for winning Words with Wings on last week's blog. As some of you know, Linda is a close writing buddy but I can assure you--there was no hanky panky in her winning this book. As far as I can tell, http://www.random.org does not keep track of previous winners! ********** Let's start with… Continue reading Digging for Clay and a Giveaway!
Congratulations to Barbara Younger who was last week's winner of Emily Pearce's book, Isabel and the Miracle Baby. By the way, for those of you who are in the middle of that interesting/challenging/unavoidable time of your life called menopause, Barbara runs a fun and informative blog on the subject! In this second blog featuring my… Continue reading Guest Instructor #2: Tameka Brown and a Giveaway!
Congratulations to Susan Light, a librarian at Christianburg High School in Virginia. She was randomly selected out of 20 participants (a record for my blog) and won the ARC of A Prisoner of Night and Fog. Thanks to all of you who tweeted and shared this giveaway and welcome to seven new followers. More giveaways to come… Continue reading Introducing Jocelyn Rish: SCBWI WIP Grant Winner!
Congratulations to Joyce Hostetter, who recommended Yankee Girl to me. She won her very own autographed copy! Many years ago my husband and I spent time and money on violin lessons for my daughters. By the time they hit middle school, other activities became more important and they lost interest. Everyone realized that there was… Continue reading Of Violins and Orchestras
Many years ago, Gretchen Griffith commuted to Charlotte to be a part of our SCBWI critique group. Since then she has found a group much closer to her home in Hickory, NC, but I have watched from afar as she got her much-worked on article "Finding Forty Two" published in Highlights in 2009, and then… Continue reading Behind the Scenes with Gretchen Griffith's New Picture Book and a Giveaway!
Congratulations to Linda Phillips who won a 10-page critique from Rebecca Petruck. For those of you who know me personally, Linda is my best writing buddy, friend, and prayer partner. But, I want to assure you that this drawing was not rigged--although I'm glad that Rebecca will help Linda with her current WIP, a middle grade… Continue reading A Time to Think
In last week's blog, Rebecca Petruck shared how she created an overall plan for revising her soon to be released book, Steering Toward Normal. In this second post, she discusses what to do when the thinking is done. Rosi Hollenbeck, one of my newer but very faithful blog followers, won last week's critique from Rebecca.… Continue reading Revision and Seeing the Big Picture- Part II and a Giveaway!
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