Welcome to my blog (scroll down to see individual posts), which was originally on a separate site at Inkygirl.com. I also have a separate Inkygirl newsletter on Substack at debbieohi.substack.com.
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I’m going to be using NaNoWriMo as extra motivation to get in some extra writing done on novel-in-progress. I found out last year that NaNoWriMo actually welcomes writers who are in all stages of their project!
Just write. Many writers hope elves will come in the night and finish your work for you. They won’t. – Neil Gaiman (@NeilHimself on Twitter)
Don’t have enough writing time for NaNoWriMo & looking for an achievable daily goal challenge? Try my Daily Words Challenge.
Mark Gottlieb is a literary agent at Trident Media Group. Mark is actively building his client list, including those who write picture books, middle grade and young adult. For picture books, Mark prefers representing those who both write and illustrate rather than those who write only or illustrate only (see his comments . . .
I’ve started working on a new picture book idea (YAY!). After I pick an idea I’m excited about, I start writing the text. Because I tend to think visually when writing, I also usually start paging out the manuscript and scribbling stick figure thumbnail sketches to help me figure out . . .
On rejection: Don’t lay blame on yourself/others. Negativity is unproductive. – Juliet Marillier
Thanks to Robert Lee Brewer and Brian Klems of Writer’s Digest for inviting me to be on their new WritersMarket.com podcast! I talked about how I started writing and illustrating books for young people, what I’ve learned so far, my middle grade novel, meeting Judy Blume, how much I love illustrating . . .