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Kaleidoscope Thoughts: Life, Love, and Writing: June 2012
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Kaleidoscope Thoughts: Life, Love, and Writing. Below you can find book reviews, writing tips, fun banter, writing related links, and excerpts from my latest manuscript. Tuesday, June 19, 2012. Book and Agent Contests and Giveaways. As I've been making the rounds today, I've noticed quite a few contests and giveaways going around the blogosphere. Since those chocolates I "gave" you in my last post didn't seem like enough, here are the links to some grooovy upcoming contests and give aways. Life has been ...
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story of her life: Things I've Learned at the Library
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Sunday, January 25, 2015. Things I've Learned at the Library. Nora Roberts. Not really my style, but apparently. I don't take very many pictures of my workplace. Or "I heard Elvis was actually gay; is that true? Answers: Snails have eyes on their top tentacles, and Elvis may have been bi.) I can always direct patrons to a book if I can't answer, but every bit of knowledge helps. The Dewey Decimal System is Awful/Awesome. The Customer Is Not Always Right. I set books up like this when trying to keep.
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amberafterglow: June 2012
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Thursday, June 21, 2012. It's Epic Thursday again, and this week I'm hosting another of my CP's Angela Parkhurst. Visit Angela at http:/ angelafrancis.wordpress.com/. And follow her on Twitter at @angela francis. This weeks excerpt comes from CINDERELLA'S GLASS STILETTO:. When nomad teenager Norah and her suicidal half-sister are sent to a boarding school in Germany, they’re shocked to learn that their classmates are characters from storybooks. So without further ado, Angela's Epic Quill Scene,. I blanch...
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Laura B Writer: June 2012
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Building Author Media Presence. Monday, June 25, 2012. Blog Critique: Word by Word. In this series I give constructive feedback about the look and function of an author blog from a marketing perspective. As always, I rely on help from graphic designers Tom Barnes (my hubby) and Joe LaRue. To review the blog elements we look at or to submit your own blog for critique, go here. Where I think you need some work is your aesthetics. Specifically:. With a few color tweaks, I think your blog can go from great t...
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Setting: Different Perspectives | Lisa the Word Nerd
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Lisa the Word Nerd. Lisa's obsession with words, books, and writing Y.A. July 21, 2015. Last week during Teachers Write (which I am trying to keep up with! There was a prompt about setting (you can read it here. Setting is a weakness of mine, an inconvenience at best. I usually just scan right past the setting in the books I read. I never thought about it as a way to reflect character, like Elana K. Arnold talks about in her blog post. Lost 6 year old. I stumble over to the long table, the only area not ...
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lisarosenman | Lisa the Word Nerd
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Lisa the Word Nerd. Lisa's obsession with words, books, and writing Y.A. A Word I Like. January 31, 2016. The omission of a sound or syllable when speaking (as in I’m. An omission of a passage in a book, speech, or film. “the movie’s elisions and distortions have been carefully thought out”. The process of joining together or merging things, especially abstract ideas. “unease at the elision of so many vital questions” ( source. But French ones like. Only this and nothing more.”. 8211;Edgar Allan Poe.
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Teen Reader Lisa | Lisa the Word Nerd
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Lisa the Word Nerd. Lisa's obsession with words, books, and writing Y.A. August 21, 2014. For one of my library classes (Children’s/YA Literature), we needed to write a reflection of ourselves as teen readers. Here’s mine:. I’m having a hard time remembering what I read as a teen. I know I did all my reading for school very conscientiously. For a while I was obsessed with. I read a lot of fluff, the equivalent of the soap operas I watched faithfully in high school. I read all the. I was drawn to the stor...
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My Name (loosely based on Sandra Cisnernos’s “My Name”) | Lisa the Word Nerd
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Lisa the Word Nerd. Lisa's obsession with words, books, and writing Y.A. My Name (loosely based on Sandra Cisnernos’s “My Name”). August 12, 2014. It’s Elizabeth, it’s Lisa, it’s Hastings, it’s Rosenman, it’s too many combinations of names on letters in the mail. It’s wondering whether Elizabeth or Lisa has to go on a form, whether the form is important enough to get the full name I don’t use. Elizabeth’s been on the top ten list for decades. Classic. My daughter’s middle name, now. 2 responses to “.
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I Wonder as I Wander | Lisa the Word Nerd
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Lisa the Word Nerd. Lisa's obsession with words, books, and writing Y.A. I Wonder as I Wander. July 6, 2015. Time to start Teachers Write again! And the school year is over, I have some extra time. What it’s like to be a twin. What it’s like to have selective mutism/ why it happens/ how much (or all) is psychological? How do people come out of it or do they? What it’s like to be a therapist; what it would be like if a character stalked their therapist, from both perspectives? Why I start all my writing i...
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