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August 10th, 2014 Once again it was time for the Cape Cod Writers Annual conference. Instead of a week long camp this year it was reduced to a long weekend to give working people a chance to take more courses.
This was my first year not taking a course. This year I chose to spend my money . . . → Read More: Summer Camp 2014
July 24th, 2013 Tonight a writer brought a story to our Cape Cod Children’s Writers critique group about a weasel trying to save two baby seagulls before the tide rolled in. The seagulls refused to cooperate, no matter what the weasel did because they thought he was trying to eat them. The weasel said to himself that he . . . → Read More: Weasels & Seagulls
June 12th, 2013 Last night in my blog group meeting we were having quite the discussion about editing. Some of us find editing easy. Some of us find it hard. Some of us take longer to edit than it did to write the post. Then we examined certain sentences in our “About Me” sections. We talked about the . . . → Read More: The Writer As Editor
April 19th, 2013 …then there was today. Yesterday was day 4 of my Young Authors Workshop. The children were very excited because the next day they were doing “author readings” in the store and the local newspaper was coming. They spent the better part of the class finishing the illustrations for their books they were going to share . . . → Read More: First There Was Yesterday…
April 16th, 2013 This morning I got up and set to work going out to do what I needed to do today along with all the other Bostonians all around me. A friend of mine wrote a blog entitled Finding Perspective that I read just before leaving the house. Not being up here in the city or being . . . → Read More: Gaining Perspective – Day 2
April 14th, 2013 So excited I can barely write – that’s a good thing, right? Today I leave for Boston to teach my first week long Young Authors Workshop. As of last night we have seven third and fourth graders who want to spend their school vacation writing! Yes, eight and nine year olds who CHOOSE to spend . . . → Read More: iTeach Kickoff!
April 13th, 2013 If some of you remember last year my author friend, Joan Walsh, launched her first book of the series Cape Cod Memory Makers. The book was set in the town of Falmouth and carried by Eight Cousins bookstore. The book was about two children visiting Cape Cod and touring Falmouth. It was an interactive book . . . → Read More: My Turn…My Town!
April 11th, 2013 If you click on the “I Practice” icon in the upper left of my blog page, (link for those reading on the Cape Cod Children’s Writers page) Another Day Goes By you will be amazed at the wonderful writing education you could get at this site. I get them emailed to me everyday and I . . . → Read More: Four Simple Words…Who Knew?
March 30th, 2013 Today the Cape Cod Children’s Writers held one of our writing retreats where new writers bring their tender, new-born work to be critiqued. I love working with writers who sit in the same seat I sat in two years ago – scared, holding the very first thing I’ve ever written. I remember being so nervous . . . → Read More: What’s Your Story?
January 26th, 2013 While cleaning out the magazine holder I came across a crinkled copy of Writer Magazine from 2010. It was folded to page 12, indicating I must have been reading something of interest when I set it down two years ago. I questioned the importance of the article since I never returned to it. Curiosity got . . . → Read More: Write Like An Athelete – Cape Cod Children’s Writers Blog
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