Writers: Be aware of when research and prep turns into procrastination
Writers: Be aware when research/prep turns into procrastination. Ask yourself: “What are you afraid of?” JUST JUMP IN. You can revise later. (And YES, I speak from experience….)
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.
Writers: Be aware when research/prep turns into procrastination. Ask yourself: “What are you afraid of?” JUST JUMP IN. You can revise later. (And YES, I speak from experience….)
Stephanie V.W. Lucianovic has dug many holes, cried lots of tears, and laid an entire garden’s worth of flowers on small and not-so-small graves. And she has never ever dug her Something Dead up. She the author of Suffering Succotash: A Picky Eater’s Quest to Understand Why We Hate the Foods We . . .
TOTALLY thrilled to find out that Michael Ian Black was on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert talking about our newest picture book, I’M WORRIED. Book mention starts at around the 4:18 timestamp. And he talks about the first two books in the I’M… series, too: I’M BORED and I’M SAD, woohoo! I had no idea this was going . . .
Only a few days until the annual SCBWI Summer Conference in LA! You can follow the action via the #LA19SCBWI hashtag and (once the conference begins) the SCBWI Conference Blog. I’ll be at the conference on faculty, including hosting the Life Drawing Lunch on Sat. Aug. 10th from 12:30-1:30 pm – do come! The deal: . . .
(Shortcut to this page, until next year’s updated post here. Also see my #BookADay archives and Donalyn Miller’s official #BookADay post on the Nerdy Book Club site.) Donalyn Miller’s 11th Annual #BookADay Challenge has officially launched! You can read about the history of #BookADay, guidelines and more via Donalyn’s #BookADay post on the Nerdy Book Club . . .
More info: Donalyn Miller’s #BookADay Challenge – My #BookADay Archives (also see my visual #BookADay archive on Padlet, Flickr and Pinterest). Also see Debbie’s Reading Journal as well as Debbie’s Bookstagram.