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Enough Already With The Heat

19.07.2010

It’s hot, and humid. It’s been hot, and humid. I hate hot, and humid. I’m not too thrilled with just plain hot, either. I’ve been joshing around with my students, saying I could do for a few inches of snow about now. And I could. Really. When it gets like this, weather-wise, and goes on [...]

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Ignore Your Character?

14.07.2010

Okay, ignore may be misleading. New ideas, for me, come via a character. My protagonist is the first thing that shows him or herself. And, up to now, I’ve been going with that character and focusing on him or her. But I also have such a difficult time with first drafts that I keep thinking [...]

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Now What?

09.06.2010

So I’ve finished my draft of my middle grade work-in-progress. Okay, it’s draft 3 1/2. Sort of. This has been such a haphazard project, written is spurts that were both out of sequence and sometimes out of sync—certainly a pantser of a chapter book. But now that I have a working draft of the story, [...]

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Time Issues

10.05.2010

I can’t remember when I first started writing—as in first started to submit work, not as in when I was a kid writing my mystery stories—if I rushed my work. I must have. I must have sent in work that could have used a few more drafts. How could I not have? With students, with [...]

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