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The Last Draft: Book cover memory lane
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Wednesday, December 5, 2012. Book cover memory lane. These are some of my favorite Nanowrimo covers. (I'm feeling reminiscent rather than exhausted because I didn't actually do Nanowrimo for the first time in several years.) But still, it's nice to think about those manuscripts of yesteryear. Here are some of our covers:. This was from 2009. Honestly, I had more fun doing the covers than anything else. A cover for a friend, but she ended up doing something else. One of my daughters' covers. Christine has...
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The Last Draft: Guest author/illustrator Jeff Mack shares his most recent project
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Saturday, January 12, 2013. Guest author/illustrator Jeff Mack shares his most recent project. As part of The Next Big Thing Blog Hop, children's author and illustrator Jeff Mack. Is sharing his most recent project with us on the Last Draft blog. To see more of his wonderful illustrations and find out about his children's books, stop by his website. What is the working title of your book? The Things I Can Do". Where did the idea come from for the book? What genre does your book fall under? It's a book ab...
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The Last Draft: December 2012
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Thursday, December 6, 2012. English in the trenches—conjunction junction, what's your disfunction? If you grew up around the time that I did and watched Saturday morning cartoons, the title to this post instantly brings a School House Rock tune to mind. I liked them so well that I set up a tape recorder next to the TV on Saturday mornings, hoping to record School House Rock songs to listen to later. (This was before CDs and DVDs.). Conjunctions can join words, phrases, or clauses. And Fred is laughing.
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The Last Draft: July 2012
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Saturday, July 14, 2012. A lesson learned from Snow White. If you've read the fairy tales, then you might understand the danger of comparing yourself to others. Remember that wicked queen in Snow White? She could have been a happy person if she had just quit asking that mirror who was the most beautiful of them all. I mean, really. People do get older. What did she expect? What's better about his writing? So take a lesson from Snow White and avoid comparison. Enjoy the success of your writing comrade...
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The Last Draft: English in the trenches—conjunction junction, what's your disfunction?
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Thursday, December 6, 2012. English in the trenches—conjunction junction, what's your disfunction? If you grew up around the time that I did and watched Saturday morning cartoons, the title to this post instantly brings a School House Rock tune to mind. I liked them so well that I set up a tape recorder next to the TV on Saturday mornings, hoping to record School House Rock songs to listen to later. (This was before CDs and DVDs.). Conjunctions can join words, phrases, or clauses. And Fred is laughing.
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The Last Draft: August 2012
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Monday, August 6, 2012. Had an awesome post last week on Fiction Notes entitled, 'How Do You Get So Much Done? When I read Darcy's post, I had a revelation moment. Maybe it was the simple way she put it, but it really hit home to me, because the single biggest problem in my own writing is that I act like writing is a treat for when everything else is done, rather than a job to do first. There's a vast difference between having a dream and having a plan. Do you have a daily time when you write? Passionate...
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The Last Draft: April 2012
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Friday, April 27, 2012. Sometimes you just have to get even with the inner editor. The writer was knocking out the story. She was excited because she had finally gotten past awful chapter seven and was in the zone, happy and oblivious. Then she heard a knock at the door. Not knowing better—the writer never seems to learn—she innocently opened the door with a smile on her face. I can't believe you wrote this." She snorted. The inner editor pressed her advantage. The writer shook herself, and a spark appea...
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The Last Draft: On Adverbs...
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013. Http:/ www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/03/13/stephen-king-on-adverbs/. March 16, 2013 at 7:48 PM. It also depends on the kind of adverbs. Some are okay to use. Its the ones which are trying to strengthen weak verbs which should be avoided. : ). Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). PiBoIdMo has officially begun, so don't miss out! We are a writers group with a main focus in writing for children and teens. We meet every other week at rotating locations in the Chicago area.
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The Last Draft: English in the trenches—those pesky compound sentences
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Tuesday, January 1, 2013. English in the trenches—those pesky compound sentences. When I started writing for kids, I relied heavily on the English I had absorbed during my school days. Unfortunately, I was a little hazy on compound sentences and their punctuation. I could see this was something of a frustration to my ICL instructor when I took the class. She tried to help, but alas, it wasn't until I started teaching that the light went on for good. Bob has booby-trapped Fred's locker, and. There is no s...
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The Last Draft: May 2013
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Monday, May 13, 2013. The publishing rock and the hard place. There are days, and then there are days. And weeks. And months. And years. This week I revised my submissions chart and put it into a spreadsheet, the advantage being that I compressed a lot of information into a smaller format, making it easier to get a bird's eye view of where my manuscripts have been, are now, or are going. I thought. How hard could it be to get a publisher if the first one wanted it? Create them is easier to decide. No...
