I lead a small writing class for some of my favorite homeschooled ballerinas. I spend about an hour per week with Word Nerd Teen (14), Cookie (11) and Mini (8). A good portion of that time is spent being thankful that I have such wonderful young ladies in my life, but we occasionally manage to work [...]
Read the rest of this entry »review: How I Became a Famous Novelist by Steve Hely
This book was an impulse buy. I spotted on the way out of the bookstore and thought it looked promising. Boy, was I ever right! Upon learning of his ex-girlfriend’s upcoming nuptials, Peter Tarslaw comes the realization that he needs to change. He has twelve short months to make himself into something that will make [...]
Read the rest of this entry »tutorial: fabric composition books
I wanted to make some pretty notebooks for the three young ladies in my homeschool writing class. My first thought was to cover a spiral with scrapbook paper (easy-peasy), but spirals aren’t known for being heavy duty. After digging around my stash, I decided that fabric covered composition books would be perfect. For each book [...]
Read the rest of this entry »TikaTok Summer of Imagination Writing Contest
Are you familiar with TikaTok? This amazing website was first beta-tested in 2008 and has been running strong for about 18 months. I have no idea how I missed it for so long, but I am so glad I finally found it. TikaTok is a free program that allows kids (or adults, for that matter) [...]
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