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Guest Blogger: Candie Moonshower Candie Moonshower is the author of The Legend of Zoey (Delacorte Press), which won the SCBWI Sue Alexander Most Promising New Work Award. In 2008, her biography of young adult author Vivian Vande Velde will be published by Enslow Press. When not rushing to meet deadlines as a regional business writer,…
Easter Prompts This is one of the most important holidays in many religions celebrating Christ’s resurrection. I do not want to get into a debate about the importance of Easter or the commercialism of the Easter bunny and chocolate. You can do that yourself when you work on your prompts (or not). Here are seven…
Puppy Prompts Everyone loves puppies. They are so cute and cuddly you cannot help but smile. I spent my whole childhood pining over other people’s dogs wishing for one of my own. For as long as I can remember I wanted a German Shepherd and was known to go up to anything and win them…
Procrastination seems to be a big issue for writers, even the ones in our group. Alma Fullerton, author of In the Garage, has written a nice article about procrastination. Yeah, I know, writers seem to like to write about it. But what is nice about this article is Fullerton also talks about what writers can…
Back to School Prompts I had a love-hate relationship with school. From an early age I hated it. It was not until I was seventeen that I began to appreciate and enjoy it. We spend a great portion of our lives in school. There are lots of stories there. It is a good time to…
The decision to create an outline for a work-in-progress (WIP) is truly an individual one. Most writers are divided into plotters or pansters. Plotters would not dream of starting their novel without first creating an outline. Pansters literally fly by the seat of their pants. They prefer to let the muse run the show and…