Welcome to my new blog, which now includes content from many of the blogs I’ve created over the years. You can now also access content via category from this one page instead of having to search for my individual blogs, which were scattered over various platforms and websites.
National Picture Book Writing Week starts tomorrow! Founder Paul Yoo explains the event… What exactly is NaPiBoWriWee? NaPiBoWriWee stands for National Picture Book Writing Week. The goal is to write 7 picture books in 7 days. I have to clarify this by stating that I do NOT think picture book writing is . . .
Starting Sunday, May 1st: Story A Day May Challenge! Founder of the challenge, Julie Duffy, was kind enough to answer a few questions about the event for me: What exactly IS Story A Day May? Story A Day is creativity challenge for writers: write (and finish)a short story every day in May. . . .
Love this quote from Libba Bray’s latest blog post: This is the magic/curse of writing: That in crafting your fiction, you leave yourself open to sudden moments of unguarded truth, and you have to be willing to tolerate that again and again. You have to keep raising your sword and charging, . . .
Tara Lazar is a children’s book author, mother, foodie and founder of Picture Book Idea Month (a.k.a. “PiBoIdMo”). Her first picture book, The Monstore, will be published by Aladdin/Simon & Schuster in 2013. Tara is represented by Ammi-Joan Paquette of the Erin Murphy Literary Agency. Find out more about Tara at her blog: http://taralazar.wordpress.com/ And stay tuned for . . .
I’ve had this sent to me in the past, but thanks to my friend Larissa for reminding me about it!
Julie Duffy is a writer and the host of StoryADay.org, a creative writing challenge held in May every year. This Friday, March 25 is the start of her 3-week Warm Up Your Writing short story course. (http://storyaday.org/wucourse/) I was tickled to see Debbie’s recent cartoon, No Magic Beans, Just Write because I was . . .
