Inspiration
Let's Celebrate (all of the) Holidays!
The Annual Highlights Fiction Contest is coming up! Entries can be up to 800 words and the deadline is 1/31. This year's topic is Holiday . While Christmas & New Years are top of mind right now, I thought a list of …
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Writing
MG Research: Erik's Top Ten Playlist
I am so excited to share today's post! Erik Weibel at This Kid Reviews Books is an expert at reviewing books. But This Kid also happens to be an expert at being an 11 year old boy, just like my MC in my MG project. …
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Writing
Memory Mining: One Pony or Two?
To be fair he had to use those ties with the little balls on the ends. When I was five I would sit on the bottom step in front of a mirror. My dad would ask "one pony or two?" and fix my hair in the request…
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Write Like a Celebrity
PiBoIdMo is over! I have over 30 lovely picture book ideas just waiting for me to write them. I immensely enjoyed my first Picture Book Idea Month hosted by Tara Lazar at Writing for Kids While Raising Them. Each day in N…
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Mash Up Match Up Game! (A New Story Idea Guaranteed)
Day 10 of PiBoIdMo (Picture Book Idea Month) brought a great idea from Diana Murray to try a mash up of ideas to create fresh new picture books. To add structure to this inspiration, I decided to create the Birthday Mash Up Ma…
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Writing
Fear and Joy as Inspiration
While the power was out last week, I suffered a recurring zombie dream. Being cut off from television and internet lets your imagination loose in the dark streets of your light-deprived mind. One particular…
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The Dirty Girls
Dirty Girls Across the Generations
I'm just a perfectly nice mom of two girls who have turned out very messy. I have no idea how. Well, maybe I have a little idea how... Cutest mass murderer ever! I always loved making magnificent mudpies. T…
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Writing
Where to Look for Inspiration
I was sick this week. Unfortunately, it was not the sniffly, sneezy kind of sick where you spike a sweet fever and your imagination sparks (literally) a bunch of amazing ideas. No, this was the other kind. I can tell…
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