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Debbie’s Blog

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.


Children’s writers and illustrators on Second Life

For those on Second Life, I have an area on the London School Of Journalism space orb devoted to resources for children’s writers and illustrators. Many thanks to Jilly Kidd for her generous donation of ad-free space! After I took the screenshot above this morning, I dropped by the Milk Wood Writers’ Dash to see who . . .



NaNoWriMo comics from the archives

Not sure when Lindsey going to be posting the NaNotoons that Errol and I co-wrote, but I’m going to start posting comics from past NaNoWriMo events:



NaNoWriMo Comics

Quite a few of you have asked me if I was going to post daily NaNoWriMo comics this month. Sorry, but I’ve just got way too much going on right now to manage this BUT my friend Errol and I are contributing three comics a week (they didn’t want more . . .



Learning about rondeaus from Robert Lee Brewer

Was fascinated by Robert Lee Brewer’s description of rondeaus today, so decided to step up to the challenge and posted two. Here they are: ========== I HOLD MY BREATH I hold my breath as I check mailWait for the cruel words to impalemy fragile writer soul so low:it shudders, rails against . . .





Morning writing session in Second Life

I haven’t written about Second Life in a while, but wanted to post this screenshot of the writing session I participated in this morning. Don’t know about the rest of you, but I always find it motivating to write while others are working hard around me…one reason I’ve always loved working in . . .



NaNoDrawMo, NaNoWriMo, PiBoIdMo and PAD

Call me crazy, but I’ve always loved creative challenges. During the month of November, I’m going to be participating in: NaNoWriMo: I’ve been doing background and outlining of my cartoon-illustrated middle grade novel, Vampire Zombie Squirrels From Outer Space, and it’s finally time to start writing it. I may not reach . . .



New comic up on Writer Unboxed!

For those who don’t know, I post a comic for writers over on Writer Unboxed on the first and third Saturday of every month. I just posted a new one this morning. 🙂