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Writers or Knitters: You’ve Got To Have The Right Tools

29.08.2010

I went on a spree yesterday—I bought the ball winder I’ve had my eye on. And I found a great swift, too. The ball winder winds skeins of yarn into a center-pull ball, and the swift is the twirly-thing with long arms (don’t you love technical language?) that holds the wool around the pegs. After [...]

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The Long and Short of It

21.02.2010

In the very first writing course I took, the first thing my instructor asked me was: Are you a long writer or a short writer? Initially, I thought that was an odd question. Then I thought, sweeping novels or tight short stories—it shouldn’t matter. Ha. But it does matter. Did you ever hear someone with [...]

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Can Children’s Writers Learn from Books for Adults?

20.12.2009

I love to read. I wish I had endless time to do so, but I don’t. That means I tend to go first for what I like or for books that grab me. I’m not good at reading something I should read if I can’t get interested in it. Classic reader’s guilt, I suppose. (However, [...]

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Holiday Reading

26.11.2009

I think I’ve always had like/dislike issues with holidays. I loved them when I was little. I lived for Christmas Eve and leaving hot cocoa and cookies for Santa. But when I got much older and worked in clinical nursing, I worked just about all of the holidays known to modern civilization. I got out [...]

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