Tag: writing motivation
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Historical Fiction
Today Sarah Johnson’s blog, Reading the Past features an article I wrote. It details the preparation and writing of Under the Almond Trees. It explores the question all historical fiction writers face–how much fact and how much fiction do I include? Click on the picture to the right to read my article. Please leave a…
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Teaching Writing in Elementary School
Children enter kindergarten loving school. They eagerly begin learning their alphabet and look forward to writing their name. By the time they reach sixth grade, they groan when the teacher says, “Take out your pencil and three pieces of binder paper.” Somewhere along the line, writing has become a dreaded chore. Something has killed the…
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NaNoWriMo Winner!
It’s not the first time I’ve become a National Novel Writing Month winner, but it’s no less intoxicating! Fifty thousand words in one month is something I can be proud of. At school, the first trimester ends the first week of November. That means grading final projects, tests, and other work then doing report cards.…
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Fear of Writing
Today I am delaying, procrastinating, avoiding writing. I have completed the major first edit of my novel, On a Wing and a Dare, and realized that it needs one more chapter. Although I am excited and proud of the twenty-one chapters that are there, this last chapter scares me. So I took the dog for…