Sulky Spider's Spooky Webs
Susanna Hill is hosting her annual Halloweensie Contest . The rules are to write a Halloween story in 100 words or less including the words pumpkin, creak, and broomstick. After having a good poem at 111 words, I cut it down…
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Writing
How to Summon Your Muse
The leaves are turning red, zombies are roaming my neighbor's yard, and I'm wearing my gray writing sweater every day, it must be... PiBoIdMo time! Logo by Vin Vogel This is my third Picture Book Idea Month, and I…
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Writing
Subversive Picture Books (Part 4)- Scary Creatures
My last post on scary books covered my biggest fear: The Dark . But the thing that makes the dark so scary is the fear of the Scary Creatures which lurk in it. With the exception of some overlap in the Halloween books, each of t…
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Writing
Subversive and Mysterious
I told you a few posts ago about the subversive story I had been noodling, but I left out an important detail: I LOST THE MANUSCRIPT. For some unknown reason I hadn't typed it up yet. Still I carried its paper-clipp…
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Writing
Subversive Picture Books (Part 3): Scared of the Dark
I started studying subversive books way back in September with the plan to cover lack of parental supervision , nudity , and scariness. I thought scary would be easy. But then over the course of the last few weeks, my living roo…
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