I used to hate poetry. I blame scholarly literary dissection and school. My memory (which, I admit, may be tainted by early years of accumulated hatred) is one of many hours of tortuous analysis, taking a few simple lines of text that I kind of thought were cool at first . . .
Looks like the NaNoWriMo blog is posting the comics that Errol and I created once a week instead of daily, so we’ll be creating just two more comics for the NaNoWriMo site. To satisfy those looking for daily NaNotoons, however, I’ll be posting some comics from the archives as well . . .
YA author Georgia McBride has started up a community for YA writers on Ning called YALitChat. YALitChat is named after the #YALitChat group on Twitter, founded by Georgia: #YAlitchat is a weekly twitter chat for anyone involved in the writing, editing , marketing or publishing of Young Adult literature. #YAlitchat takes place at 9PM EST . . .
To those who took up the 1000 wds/day or 500 wds/day challenge last year, how did you do? And how many of you want to join me in the challenge THIS year? For those who haven’t heard of this challenge, the goal is to write 1000 words a day, at . . .