From the monthly archives:

June 2010

Eeney, Meeny, Miney, Mo…

30.06.2010

Surprises? I can take or leave them. Yesterday, I loved them. I’ve been keeping my distance from my MG WIP, circling around it, poking at it with a stick. Just when I was ready to chew myself out for procrastinating not sitting down and working on it, a rush of ideas found me—for another manuscript [...]

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Oh, Those Raccoons

26.06.2010

The trouble with raccoons is they’re too cute. But cute can be deceiving. You almost want to forget all the trouble they can cause. The operative word, though, is almost. And I make sure I keep all that trouble in mind when I’m thinking about planting vegetables. What I definitely will not get is tomato [...]

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Summer Berries and Haiku

22.06.2010

June means summer—and this June means the first issue of Berry Blue Haiku is up. Gisele LeBlanc began BBH and describes it best in her own words here and here: Berry Blue Haiku is a quarterly digital magazine focusing on haiku for kids up to age 13. In each issue, we will bring you contests, [...]

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Outlines (Again)

20.06.2010

I think I’m haunted by outlines. I found a quote today to justify my dislike of traditional, the-kind-you-had-to-do-in-school-and-hated, outlines. It’s from Ray Bradbury and I found it in the Spring 2010 issue of The Paris Review. When the interviewer asked him if he wrote outlines, Bradbury said: No, never. You can’t do that. It’s just [...]

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