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Squidge's Scribbles: Creativity, Squidge-style
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Blog of Katherine Hetzel, the short author who tells tall tales. Saturday, 15 August 2015. Our summer hols have been more of a stay-cation than a vacation. especially after T's axe-ident which meant he wasn't able to get out and about in the first few weeks. (Pleased to report all is healing nicely). Anyway, the Squidges have still had plenty of time to get creative, and there are a few summer projects to share with you. 1 The waa-waa box. Doesn't look much on the outside. The official Airfix desk. When ...
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Squidge's Scribbles: FREE FICTION!
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Blog of Katherine Hetzel, the short author who tells tall tales. Sometimes I post short pieces of fiction on the Scribbles. I've decided to collect them all in one place so if you want to read them, you don't have to go trawling through backdated posts. Here's a list of all the links - just click on them to have a read. Some of them are not aimed at children, so please check suitability before sharing any with younger readers. In the Darkness of Night. The Memory of Amelia Maybelove. On the Fourth Day.
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Squidge's Scribbles: August 2015
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Blog of Katherine Hetzel, the short author who tells tall tales. Monday, 24 August 2015. I love notebooks; I'm a bit of a one for seeing a beautiful cover and buying it, then saving it for 'something special'. Like this one, which has still got Ani's story in it, in spite of the fact the story stalled. Laura Buckland (who illustrated both my Granny Rainbow. Collections) has recently made handmade books as part of her uni course - and she's been selling them too. Look at these beauties! A rainbow of pages.
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Squidge's Scribbles: 100 days of writing. Tick.
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Blog of Katherine Hetzel, the short author who tells tall tales. Tuesday, 18 August 2015. 100 days of writing. Tick. Yesterday, I achieved my target - 100 days of writing. Almost a third of a year - in words. Not exactly pretty.but it does the job. I started back in April. Inspired by a friend whose husband had made her a writing chart. I didn't think I could realistically go a full year, (as she is well on the way to achieving) so my chart stopped at 100 days. Will I carry on? Here's to the next 100.
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Squidge's Scribbles: March 2015
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Blog of Katherine Hetzel, the short author who tells tall tales. Tuesday, 31 March 2015. Storytelling - Part 3. Remember the storytelling course I did? Blogged about it here (part 1). And here (part 2. Today, I put it into practise. The daft thing is, I still had to write the story 'properly' on paper first - remember that whole 'embedding' issue? The kids just got me.and a story about The Story Bird. In the Charnwood Museum as part of the Ladybird Books Centenary celebrations! I came away feeling more c...
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Squidge's Scribbles: January 2015
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Blog of Katherine Hetzel, the short author who tells tall tales. Tuesday, 27 January 2015. When I walk into a bookshop to browse, the first thing that catches my eye is probably the cover. Something about the artwork draws me in, makes me want to pick up the book and take a closer look. The next thing I do is check the blurb. Blurb is crucial. Those words on the back cover? I might even buy the book. StarMark's going to need a blurb. How do you condense the essence of your story into around 150 words?
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Squidge's Scribbles: Aaand...back to writing
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Blog of Katherine Hetzel, the short author who tells tall tales. Thursday, 30 July 2015. The King Stone. My latest WIP. It's coming on.slowly. I'm test-running the first draft by a few cloudie friends at the moment, trying to see whether the story's holding together. They seem to think so. It's also helping me to keep busy before I receive the edits of both StarMark and a second Random Writer's anthology. Had I told you that there's going to be another Random anthology, by the way? At this stage, the cha...
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Squidge's Scribbles: June 2015
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Blog of Katherine Hetzel, the short author who tells tall tales. Saturday, 27 June 2015. National Flash Fiction Day 2015. Today is National Flash Fiction Day. There are loads of great flash pieces going up on the internet throughout the day - as well as special events in lots of places. Or check out the shorter pieces on the ' Free Fiction'. Page here on the Scribbles. To celebrate, I'm posting a little bit of flash myself. The story was inspired by a particular shade of red on a paint chart, called.
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Squidge's Scribbles: Red Nose Granny Rainbow Auction 2015
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Blog of Katherine Hetzel, the short author who tells tall tales. Red Nose Granny Rainbow Auction 2015. Keep tabs on the latest bids for this unique copy of Granny Rainbow. For details of how to place a bid, follow this link. The Red Nose Edition. Final bid : £30 (23:10, 13-03-15, facebook). I'm going to double that.so that's a whopping £60 to Comic Relief. Hooray! Thanks to everyone who placed a bid; Red Nose Granny will be winging her way to Birmingham on the 16th March. x. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Squidge's Scribbles: Down at the bottom of Biggin Street...
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Blog of Katherine Hetzel, the short author who tells tall tales. Wednesday, 5 August 2015. Down at the bottom of Biggin Street. Loughborough - like many town centres - has a lot of charity shops. And most of them have at least one shelf given over to second-hand books. Apart from WHSmiths and Waterstones, they're the only places you can get your hands on physical books, unless you include certain market stalls that either trade paperbacks or sell on discounted wholesale stock. I took in probably a dozen ...
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