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Archive for the ‘Rhyming’ Category

My Manuscript’s Verse is Nothing Like the Bard’s

Posted in Children's Books, Poetry, Publishing, Rhyming, SCBWI, Works in Progress, Writing, tagged , , , , , , , , , on May 12, 2010 | 3 Comments »

If last week’s theme was NaPiBoWriWee, and the week before that was Unclutter Your Life in One Week, then this week is preparation for the Big Sur in the Rockies conference this weekend.  I couldn’t resist attending because it takes place here in Boulder, and it will give me the chance to workshop two manuscripts [...]

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Poetry and the Professor

Posted in Children's Books, Poetry, Rhyming, Writing, tagged , , , , on March 19, 2010 | 7 Comments »

Iambic pentameter anyone?  How about a (bad) haiku? Before I met you, Poetry was my respite. Professor Killjoy From a very young age, I both read and wrote poetry.  Poems spontaneously erupted in my head, and I wrote them down ferociously before the spark fizzled.  Poetry was my creative juice.  I wrote them only from [...]

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My Olympic Moment…

Posted in Rhyming, Travel, Works in Progress, Write-a-thon, Writing, tagged , , , , , , , , on March 2, 2010 | 1 Comment »

… came in two forms yesterday.  First, I sailed past the halfway mark on my write-a-thon and met a deadline in the process.  After writing for three hours en route home, I am now up to 17 hours written and $152 raised for the American Heart Association.  I also polished one of my manuscripts enough [...]

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My Head Hurts

Posted in Children's Books, I Need Wine Pronto!, Rhyming, Works in Progress, Write-a-thon, Writing, tagged , , , on February 26, 2010 | 3 Comments »

I wrote for six hours today, so I am now officially one-third finished line with my write-a-thon goal.  Too bad I should be at the halfway point by now.  I’ll have to buckle down again for the next couple of days to get caught up and hopefully even ahead of the game.  I’m a bit [...]

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For the Love of Rhyme

Posted in Authors, Books, Children's Books, Rhyming, Writing, tagged , , , , , on February 8, 2010 | 1 Comment »

While I procrastinate on the edits to my own children’s book manuscripts, I thought I’d give a shout-out to those authors who have inspired me with their talent for telling stories in rhyme.  These are my favorites, subject to the following rules:  1) I omitted Dr. Seuss and Shel Silverstein entirely otherwise the list would [...]

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