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Weekly wordcount check-in: 250, 500, 1000 wds/day

Do you need a wordcount challenge with some leeway? Check out the challenges below:250 wds/day | 500 wds/day | 1000 wds/day So how did you all do with your daily wordcount challenges since the last check-in?




Looking for a useful notetaking or writing app for the iPad?

I’ve been reviewing iPad apps that could be useful to writers on iPadGirl recently. Unfortunately Posterous doesn’t have a good archiving index system, so I’m compiling a list of notetaking and writing iPad apps for writers on a separate page, with links to my reviews.





Notetaking & writing on the iPad: First app review – Sketchpad HD

More writers have been asking me about what apps I’m finding useful on the iPad, so I’m going to start reviewing various notetaking and writing apps I’ve been trying out. I posted my first on iPadGirl today: Sketchbook HD – Great idea, but doesn’t work properly in landscape mode



Toronto MG/YA Writers’ Group #torkidlit tweetup

One of the many reasons I’m glad I joined Twitter: the Toronto MG/YA Writers’ Group. Claudia Osmond started the #torkidlit group, approaching Toronto area middle grade and young adult writers on Twitter and suggesting we get together in person. We meet once a month at a pub/restaurant in downtown Toronto. Although the focus of . . .




Blog highlight: Literary Rejections On Display

Rejection always hurts. I’m skeptical of writers who claim that rejections don’t bother them at all. No matter how experienced you are, I can’t help but think that a rejection -ANY rejection- has got to sting at least a little. Don’t know about the rest of you, but I’m saving . . .