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Don't Forget the Samovar by Kristen Wixted: September 2014
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Don't Forget the Samovar by Kristen Wixted. About writing for children, books for children, driving in Boston, and the dangers of cooking. Saturday, September 6, 2014. Since the start of school I've worked on my middle grade WIP every day. I told my critique group I would get two chapters written before our last meeting. I wrote eight. I have hunkered down and got myself in the chair. My writing place is cozy, like this fairy house in my garden, only much bigger. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Celebrating t...
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Don't Forget the Samovar by Kristen Wixted: Different Kinds of Secrets
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Don't Forget the Samovar by Kristen Wixted. About writing for children, books for children, driving in Boston, and the dangers of cooking. Friday, April 4, 2014. Different Kinds of Secrets. Keeping a secret can be hard, or easy. Depends on the secret. My secret was hard to keep: T. I didn't know Sam made it to the finale of Under the Gunn. Ut a certain family member told me back in January that Sam's mom, dad, and sister had taken a quick trip to LA right before Christmas. Why would they do that? FYI Osc...
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Don't Forget the Samovar by Kristen Wixted: July 2013
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Don't Forget the Samovar by Kristen Wixted. About writing for children, books for children, driving in Boston, and the dangers of cooking. Monday, July 15, 2013. Last weekend I was in a local production of The Secret Garden, which is a musical as well as one of my favorite children's books. As I've written before, I was in the ensemble, and in one scene I played the nurse. My daughters do a lot of theater, and I had always wanted to see what it was like on the stage, and well.I did it. She organizes all ...
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Don't Forget the Samovar by Kristen Wixted: August 2013
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Don't Forget the Samovar by Kristen Wixted. About writing for children, books for children, driving in Boston, and the dangers of cooking. Wednesday, August 21, 2013. Off to High School. Scoutie, my puppy, and I walked my oldest daughter, Rebecca, to the high school driveway this morning for her orientation. When we got close, Becky waved, I waved, Scoutie barked. Refused to move. "Becky left us? I am waiting for Becky," Scout said. I'm waiting," she said, butt firmly planted on the sidewalk. Becky's cla...
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Don't Forget the Samovar by Kristen Wixted: January 2014
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Don't Forget the Samovar by Kristen Wixted. About writing for children, books for children, driving in Boston, and the dangers of cooking. Friday, January 31, 2014. Last night our Sammy knocked it out of the park on Under The Gunn. I'm glad, if the judges were going to go with a pants/jumpsuit kind of thing, they picked the one that drew attention to the whole woman and not just a certain area of her body. I like the necklace too. If this was a poor fabric choice, they didn't explain why on the show.
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Don't Forget the Samovar by Kristen Wixted: August 2014
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Don't Forget the Samovar by Kristen Wixted. About writing for children, books for children, driving in Boston, and the dangers of cooking. Monday, August 18, 2014. Every city should have one of these:. This is Edinburgh, Scotland (which you should pronounce "Edin-burrow" or Scottish people will heave loud sighs at you). Outside, on the ground, there are these:. There were others but my family was looking at me like, "Why are you taking pictures of the ground? BTW yes, we saw the monster. MG Book Review &...
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Don't Forget the Samovar by Kristen Wixted: October 2013
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Don't Forget the Samovar by Kristen Wixted. About writing for children, books for children, driving in Boston, and the dangers of cooking. Monday, October 7, 2013. Sherlock Goes to Third Grade. I haven't been blogging. I've been struggling with blog writer's block caused by overwhelmation due to ill family members and lawyers and crapola like you wouldn't believe. I was (well, am) overwhelmed, so the blog suffered. Sorry. Now I have a writing story to share. Few years ago,. I said, "Hey Pete, me too!
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Don't Forget the Samovar by Kristen Wixted: February 2014
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Don't Forget the Samovar by Kristen Wixted. About writing for children, books for children, driving in Boston, and the dangers of cooking. Friday, February 14, 2014. Three Cheers for two good people. So happy for our new family friend Asha Daniels. For winning last night's challenge on Under The Gunn! They had to create something for Zendaya, the Disney kid star. Although they describe her as "singer, actress, author. Didn't garner a ton of attention but hey, he's still there! Tuesday, February 11, 2014.
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Don't Forget the Samovar by Kristen Wixted: The Am I Really Writing this Post? Post
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Don't Forget the Samovar by Kristen Wixted. About writing for children, books for children, driving in Boston, and the dangers of cooking. Monday, December 3, 2012. The Am I Really Writing this Post? I have an agent! This is how it happened for me. September 2001: Take a writing class. Write picture book ms's. Send to editors. 2002: Get contract for PB. A couple of months later publisher changes its mind. Back to square one. Dec 2011: Get query critiqued on The QQQE. For my MG novel, SILVER POOL OF LIGHT.
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Don't Forget the Samovar by Kristen Wixted: Writing with Pictures
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Don't Forget the Samovar by Kristen Wixted. About writing for children, books for children, driving in Boston, and the dangers of cooking. Tuesday, July 8, 2014. When I'm working on a story idea, I usually draw a lot of pictures (especially if it's a lower MG or chapter book) to give myself ideas how the manuscript might look on a page, and. How to make it fun. These are drawings I've sketched for a MS called. THE DEAD THINGS COLLECTION. The animals have their own story in the margin! Thanks, Andrea :).
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