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Planning for 2008 I’m planning to take off blogging until January 3. It’s family time and I hope a time for me to plan for next year. I’ve been blogging now for about a year and in that time, I’ve had about 50,000 visits to the sites, first on livejournal and now on my own [...]
Organizations Children’s Book Council The CBC sponsors Children’s Book Week and Children’s Poetry Week. They have an online listing of member publishers and how to contact them. Society of Children’s Bookwriters and Illustrators The SCBWI is the professional organization for those writing and illustrating for kids. Look for the link to regional chapters to see [...]
HAPPY HOLIDAYS For the last few years, I’ve posted writing tips from Winter Holiday personalities. For example, Frosty the Snowman has 6 Top Writing Tips. This year, as our Christmas gift to you, we’ve collected these into one downloadable pdf. Winter Writing with Kids FREE download. 34 Writing Skills addressed. Celebrate the Season while Teaching [...]
HAPPY HOLIDAYS For the last few years, I’ve posted writing tips from Winter Holiday personalities. For example, Frosty the Snowman has 6 Top Writing Tips. This year, as our Christmas gift to you, we’ve collected these into one downloadable pdf. Winter Writing with Kids FREE download. 34 Writing Skills addressed. Celebrate the Season while Teaching [...]
HAPPY HOLIDAYS For the last few years, I’ve posted writing tips from Winter Holiday personalities. For example, Frosty the Snowman has 6 Top Writing Tips. This year, as our Christmas gift to you, we’ve collected these into one downloadable pdf. Winter Writing with Kids FREE download. 34 Writing Skills addressed. Celebrate the Season while Teaching [...]
Throw away the English teacher’s outline (ETO) and try a shorter outline that is more appropriate to fiction. Outline Structure Jon Franklin, in his book, Writing for Story, proposes a different type of outline. Though he’s talking about non-fiction, he’s writing stories and his outline works well for fiction because he’s using scenes to develop [...]
Having just done NaNoWriMo, Dori Butler muses about first drafts and her process of writing. Sara Holmes writes about time and writers. What songs does Janni Simner listen to while on revisions? Chynna encourages writers (especially women) to stop their self-sabotage. Wow! Book covers that pop.
You’ve revised. You’ve submitted. Still no sales. Now what? Consider your marketing Target your submissions better. What? You only submitted to one editor? Today–not tomorrow–send the mss to at least three more editors. Study the market and target at least ten more. When the mss comes back from one, send it out the next day [...]
Calling all successful NaNoWriMo writers. You’ve written your first novel. You’re facing your first revisions. Where do you start? Read Self Editing for the Fiction Writer by Renni Browne and Dave King. Revise everything that you can think of based on that book. Attitude toward revision: After you’ve done that, do NOT think you are [...]
A friend recently referred to the starts and stops of our writing life as the “times and tides,” and emphasized that each of us has different tide tables. It’s true. I’m ready to pick up the threads of a revision this week. Another friend has finished the final copy editing of her most recent non-fiction [...]
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