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Everyone feels overwhelmed and discouraged sometimes. Or sometimes life gets in the way, with circumstances out of your control. Take a break if you need to, but don’t give up hope. Put your half-finished mss or picture book dummy in the drawer for now and find other ways to keep . . .
One of my favourite pieces of advice for writers and illustrators is from literary agent Jenny Bent: “…Be brave. Fail. Try again. Succeed. Rinse and repeat.” It applies as much to the published as well as pre-published. In fact, this advice is good for life in general. Thank you, Jenny!
I admit it: I’m an app packrat. (“Ooo, shiny app! Must get!”) Last night I decided to go through my iPad Pro apps and decide what to keep, what to cull. I had never actually trying Animation Desk Ultimate on my iPad Pro yet, so decided to give it a shot. Super-easy . . .
Do you or don’t you? Here are the results of the dog-ear poll I did a couple of years ago.
Earlier this week, I was so tickled to see this tweet: And then I also noticed that Hannah happened to be my 35,000th follower! I asked Hannah to tell me more about herself and her role at the library. “My name is Hannah Gavalis and I’m a third generation librarian! . . .
