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Saturday Story: The Rag Collector’s Daughter

Today’s Saturday Story was inspired by a true story of something that happened to my grandmother as a young girl. Dorothy the horse truly did exist. Enjoy! The Rag Collector’s Daughter Boys and girls of all ages ran down the school corridor. Jules took her time...

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Saturday Story: Moon at Dusk pt 1

A-Z Challenge Time!

Hello there!

It has been months since I posted, but I needed to step back for a while. My dissertation is in the analyzing stage which means I am writing up all my research into the final drafts. We also just had my husband’s social security disability...

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Ack! What Have I Done?!

Writer’s Digest is sponsoring a critique contest with agent Kristen Nelson of Nelson Literary Agency. Simple, just submit the first 1000 words of your manuscript and you have the chance of being featured in an issue of Writer’s Digest with a corresponding critique from Kristen....

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Smallville and Other Randomness…

Sorry, Jennifer can’t come out and play today. To paraphrase Spongebob, I have the ick. Seriously, I am kinda wanting to swallow glass because it has to be better than the way I am feeling right now and I was actually doing better this afternoon...

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X is for X-Men

V is for Vuvox

http://www.vuvox.com/collage_express/collage.swf?collageID=0248a41d61 I love Vuvox. It is a free tool available on the internet for creating interactive collages. This is a great resources for educators, librarians, and writers. You can use it to market a program, teach a lesson, or even incorporate a digital booktalk into...

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Twitter Twit

Follow me on Twitter! @woofer_kyyiv, a photo by Slava Baranskyi on Flickr. Okay, so around this time last year I was very anti-twitter. I just couldn’t see a need for it when Facebook did everything that Twitter did. That was until I seriously started blogging and writing...

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D is for Deadline

Procrastination is the Killer of All Creativity