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Mood Enhancers that Do Not Come in Capsule Form
1. ice cream–the ultimate comfort food 2. learning that my mother is bffs with an editor at a big-time publishing company (I can’t speak from experience here, but I know this would cheer me up) 3....
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Poo To Do
I really don’t see how this would be of interest to anyone except myself, but my to-do list (all forms of it updated, categorized, fretted over, and so on, since high school) is on my mind right now,...
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My Friday Five
A Friday Free-for-All 1. I really do love Sarah Dessen’s blog. There usually isn’t anything particularly helpful in it, which I like in a blog (as you can probably see if you’re reading mine). Hers is...
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Writer Quiz
Dreamer? Wisher? Hoper? Player? [A Friday Free-for-All Entry] 1. Do you have at least seven titles but no salable manuscript? 2. Have you spent over two hours finessing your writing space (on...
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First Sentences in YA Lit
Here are 30 first sentences. Do you know the books they go to? If you know what I’ve been reading lately you’ll have an advantage, but I threw a few old favorites in just to keep you guessing. Um,...
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First Sentences in YA Lit, Answers
In lieu of a book review, here are the authors and books matched up to the first sentences I posted on Friday. (Oh, and the parenthetical P notations indicate, where I remember, that the first sentence...
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I Heart You, Georgia
I haven’t yet reviewed an entire series on this blog, but it’s slooooow going through my current (snooty-sounding) read, The Grand Permission: New Writings on Poetics and Motherhood, so I’m stepping...
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The Challenge of Turning 30
The clock is ticking and I’ve got six months left of my twenties. I want to do them right. The thing is, I feel like a kid most of the time. There’re all kinds of things I don’t know how to do or even...
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The Writer’s 12 Days of Christmas
Instead of a book review, I have to do something festive. Okay, and this post was supposed to be for Christmas Eve, but I never got around to posting it. But really, if I’d posted it on Christmas Eve,...
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Danger. Have Book. Will Ignore. Everything.
Long, long, long ago, when I was a little munchkin, I loved to read books. Fast forward through the awkward middle school years, the dark teen angsty years, the wow-I-can-sleep-in-every-damn-day...
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