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WFMAD Day 21 – banning censorship
Censorship is in the news again. Start out your Saturday by reading Pat Scales’ great article about Common Sense Media, Three Bombs, Two Lips, and a Martini Glass. Then bring yourself up to speed on the censorship battle surrounding the Teen Lit Fest in Humble, TX. My friend, Ellen Hopkins, was disinvited to speak after [...]
WFMAD Day 20 – Silliness
Sometimes you just have to push the silly button. Maybe that’s why it is time for the annual Pimp My Bookcart competition. Last year’s winner was a Good Humor-themed cart created by welding students at Harlem High School. If you need to smile, check out all of last year’s winners. Two more smile makers come [...]
WFMAD Day 19 – Focus & non-WFMAD news, including Frío
Summer is hurrying to a close. I saw geese migrating a few days ago and when we were running last night, we passed a huge flock of birds gathered on the phone wires; the equivalent of people flooding an airline terminal as they prepare to fly to Florida for the winter. I’m bummed because I [...]
WFMAD Day 18 – You Ask, I Answer
(I didn’t give the whole story on the exercise thing yesterday. I’m feeling guilty about it so I will now come clean. Aside from the future-marathon running, I have a five-week book tour coming up, starting in mid-October. My doctor said if I packed on some muscle it would improve my chances of not being [...]
WFMAD Day 17 – Rocky writing
Not writing on a rocky shore. Or rocky writing that is the despair of editors, or drives you to a vat of Rocky Road ice cream. I’m thinking about my favorite Rocky. This guy. I’m thinking of him a lot these days because I’ve stepped up my training. I’m now running three days a week [...]
WFMAD Day 16 – In the Kitchen
NPR recently did a segment on the best meals shown on film. If your book doesn’t have a scene of someone eating something, you might want to consider one. Most people eat at least three times a day – often more – and a meal can carry every imaginable kind of metaphorical weight. It’s a [...]
WFMAD Day 15 – Better Late Than Never
I’m late. I know. I should probably hang my head in shame. But I’m not going to. Our weekend was filled with camping with friends and then today we had some family stuff that took up most of the day, which was way longer than I thought it would. I don’t regret one second. There [...]
WFMAD Day 14 – Do You Dare?
Do you dare disturb the universe? This question is what holds many of us back from writing, or from writing the things that we really want to. Because our lives are ordered and comfortable and to become creative just might mess all that up. But… I’ve met so many people who want to write, who [...]
WFMAD Day 13 – Alone Together
Such a strange thing writing is, don’t you think? Visions of other people and other worlds swim in your head until you have no choice but to write them down. Then you have the burning need to have someone else read what you’ve written, so you embark on the rocky path to publication. The writing [...]
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