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angst | Colleen Ryckert Cook
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I write because I am. This Twilight Trailer: Spoof of Gold. September 14, 2008. Contemplating Show vs Tell. May 9, 2008. I confess. The words Show, don’t tell make me cringe. I think I’m showing, and still someone will say too much telling. I see what I think is telling all the time in books that I love, to the point that I now wonder if I know what “show” is. So tell me: How do you recognize when you are telling, rather than showing? And how do you know when you’ve shown? January 16, 2008. Daniel Handle...
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clem | Colleen Ryckert Cook
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I write because I am. For Lizzy: Teaser Tuesday. September 9, 2008. September 7, 2008. I’ve been stumped for a while on my women’s fiction manuscript re: a key growth moment. The easy solution would be to kill the scene that isn’t working just to get over the slump, but it lessened significant growth that I insist needed to come at a certain point and from a certain character. I think I’ve solved that. At least in my head. Getting it down, on the other hand…. I suppose I could go this route: She didnR...
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funny kid sayings | Colleen Ryckert Cook
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I write because I am. Tag Archives: funny kid sayings. Kids, don’t try this at home. May 10, 2009. No 2 son: What can I do around the house to make money that isn’t cleaning up my room? I know. I can massage your feet. Me: But it’s Mother’s Day. I shouldn’t have to pay for it. No 2 son: But I’m a professional. Three days in the life. March 30, 2009. Friday: No. 1 Son turns 12. Saturday: Spring snowstorm strikes, but daffodils are saved. Sunday: No. 2 son loses then promptly swallows first tooth. 2 No 1 S...
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debuts | Colleen Ryckert Cook
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I write because I am. March 17, 2009. My friend and fellow Heartlander Barb Stuber sold her first novel, a YA called CROSSING THE TRACKS! Karen Wojtyla, executive editor at Margaret K. McElderry, a division of Simon and Schuster, and clearly a woman of extraordinary taste, says novel is lyrical and haunting, wrapped her in an embrace and spoke to her heart. And having read much of CROSSING THE TRACKS, I can attest to that. Put this on your MUST BUY list for 2010. Another debut book release! March 4, 2008.
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kidlit central; writing tips | Colleen Ryckert Cook
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I write because I am. Tag Archives: kidlit central; writing tips. March 24, 2009. I just posted over at KidLit Central. Today I share writing tips to help turn your imaginations into formidable forces of good. Kidlit central; writing tips. Todd Snider is coming to Knuckleheads in Oct. I'm going with a friend. Wanna come with? Wait You're moving? Oh Twitter. I want to love you, but you are so noisy. 3 years ago. It's been a while since I've twittered. I just tried to like your #thelostboys.
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memes | Colleen Ryckert Cook
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I write because I am. Because I really need a laugh. October 10, 2008. If you read this, if your eyes are passing over this right now (even if we don’t speak often or ever) please post a comment with a completely made up, fictional memory of you and me. It can be anything you want – good or bad – but it has to be fake. When you’re finished, post this little paragraph in your LJ and see what your friends come up with. Friday 5 x 5. January 11, 2008. Five voices that make me glad I can hear:. Thinks you ha...
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BridgeKeeper | L.S. Moore
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Fiction writer and blogger. I’m Will McCurty. I’m fifteen. And I’m my brother’s Keeper. A Keeper’s part bodyguard, part errand-boy-for-the-dead. Seth’s a Bridge, a medium. He pulls souls across the veil between the living and the dead. The trouble is that when a person’s freaked-out enough when they die to defy the laws of nature and stick around In Between, they’re not in a Christmas morning kind of mood when they use Seth to come back across the veil. So far, we’re just not that lucky. Fans of YA ficti...
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I Dig Graves | L.S. Moore
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Fiction writer and blogger. I’m a cemetery addict. I drag my kids through them when we’re on vacation. I make of point of seeking them out everywhere we stop: Rome, Prague, Edinburgh, Hong Kong, Missouri, Colorado, Texas, Kansas, Floridaon and on. Since I was old enough to drive myself, I’ve given-in to the pull of a cemetery along the road. Lately, I bring my camera. My tombstone tourist blog, I Dig Graves. Is a kind of guidebook. There’s a link to it in the sub menu for this page. Author of Crossing th...
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heartland writers | Colleen Ryckert Cook
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I write because I am. Tag Archives: heartland writers. March 17, 2009. My friend and fellow Heartlander Barb Stuber sold her first novel, a YA called CROSSING THE TRACKS! Congratulations, Barb and your wondeful agent Ginger Knowlton! May this be the first of many celebrations for your partnership! My writers group, relatively new and now improved! January 23, 2009. Check out my writers’ group Website! Ginger Knowlton has exquisite taste. November 27, 2008. Wishing you all the happiest of Thanksgivings!
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conferences | Colleen Ryckert Cook
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I write because I am. Kansas SCBWI Conference Sept 11-12. July 23, 2009. Kansas SCBWI has planned a rip-roarin’ conference for children’s writers and illustrators. Yes, we got authors! We got illustrator Tom Nelson, agent Ted Malawar of Firebrand Literary. Editor Eve Adler of Henry Holt and Company. We got manuscript critques and portfolio reivews and sessions on characters, voice, humor, structure and more! Hope to see you there! Wait You're moving? See you at school! Kidlit central; writing tips.
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