I write poetry, novels, and screenplays, blog kidlit at gottabook.blogspot.com, and co-host #kidlitchat every Tuesday at 9PM Eastern. I bat and throw righty.
Joined September 2008
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21 Apr 2021
Write a poem.
Work with clay.
Draw or paint a day away.
Knit or dance.
Make a song.
Film a movie all night long.
Use your hands,
Brain and heart.
Live! Create!
Go make some art.
#poetry #NationalPoetryMonth #art #create!
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25 Oct 2023
TOPIC: How do you use dialogue to shape your characters? Your plot? How do you maintain the balance between dialogue and narration? #kidlitchat
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18 Oct 2023
TOPIC: What are the tools you use for the business side of the kidlit business? How do you track submissions or expenses or who is where or school visits or or or? Share your tips and tools and questions! #kidlitchat
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11 Oct 2023
TOPIC: Character development--where does it come in your process? How do you create fully-realized characters? Does *every* character need to be fully realized? Share your thoughts, tips, and fave resources.... #kidlitchat
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4 Oct 2023
TOPIC: So . . . the age-old question: are you a plotter or a pantser--a step-by-step process-follower, or a free spirit? (Or a little of both?) How do you manage your creativity when it comes to producing the work? #kidlitchat
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27 Sep 2023
BTW, for those still here, please know that #kidlitchat is also happening over on that blue place. the sky one. when/if you get there, you'll find it.
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27 Sep 2023
TOPIC: What are you reading now? What's on your TBR pile? (We know there's a pile . . .) Share your current and soon-to-be favorites! #kidlitchat
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20 Sep 2023
TOPIC: What's the best advice you've ever received (or read, or heard) regarding the nature of the business, the creative life, or any other aspect of your #kidlit career? #kidlitchat
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20 Sep 2023
Sure, we're gonna #kidlitchat here again tonight. Still free and easy, I tell ya. 6 minutes away at 9 PM Eastern/6 PM Pacific!
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13 Sep 2023
Thanks, y'all, for jumping into another #kidlitchat. We're crafty people, clearly. Here's to good craft in the week ahead... and see you here soooooooon!
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13 Sep 2023
I had just been re-reading Leonard Marcus' Ways of Telling. I'm not sure this is exactly a craft book, but I do know that reading it helped my picture book writing... so I'd say "yes." #Kidlitchat
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13 Sep 2023
TOPIC: What are your favorite books on craft? Or your favorite websites/newsletters/whatever that you turn to for the craft side of things? #kidlitchat
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13 Sep 2023
It being a Tuesday, we shall #kidlitchat at the top of this very hour (9 PM Eastern/6 PM Pacific). I hope you'll join us
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6 Sep 2023
Thanks to the hearty few who are still with us here at the original #kidlitchat. If this thing still turns on, we'll see you here next week, too, methinks....
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6 Sep 2023
TOPIC: It's time to check in with what you've been working on since June! No need to be specific--and we count everything, including what you may have been only *thinking* of doing. Planning is progress! #kidlitchat
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6 Sep 2023
Well, it being #kidlitchat day (which others oddly call "Tuesday"), we're gonna see if this thing is still working. Chat at the top of the hour (9 PM Eastern/6 PM Pacific). Hope to see you here.
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30 Aug 2023
Thanks to all you #kidlitchat stalwarts for checking in here. We'll see you next week!
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30 Aug 2023
My 'partially read and will return to it but something else jumped ahead" pile (PR&WRTIBSEJA pile, as it is known) is also exceedingly large. But the TBR one is larger for sure. #kidlitchat
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30 Aug 2023
I find that my TBR pile gets metaphorically taller whether I'm reading actively or not. Any genre. Any age range. Any... thing. #kidlitchat
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30 Aug 2023
TOPIC: What's at the top of your TBR stack? Note that you don't have to be actively reading, just *intending* to--for those of us hopelessly behind on our reading! #kidlitchat
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