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Sally Poyton: May 2013
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Writer, Artist and Fairy Tale Enthusiast. Follow my quest as a dyslexic writer battling with words to avoid the perils of the slushpile. Tuesday, 7 May 2013. Giving my creativity a boost (or at least that’s my excuse) . . . Giving my creativity a boost. Or at least that’s my excuse) . . . A while ago I wrote a blog called Dachshund vs Straitjacket [to read press here]. Here is the solution . . . Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). What to expect from my blog. Of all thing books plus insights on writing, and dysl...
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Sally Poyton: My Writing
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Writer, Artist and Fairy Tale Enthusiast. Follow my quest as a dyslexic writer battling with words to avoid the perils of the slushpile. MG Novel - Fantasy. Long-listed for The Times / Chicken House Children's Fiction Competition 2013. Honorary Mentioned in Undiscovered Voices 2012. Journey to The Bone Factory. YA Novel - Sci-Fi / Fantasy. The Times / Chicken House Children's Fiction Competition 2014. Highly Commended in the. Writing for Children age 13 competition. Winchester Writers Conference 2012.
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Sally Poyton: July 2015
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Writer, Artist and Fairy Tale Enthusiast. Follow my quest as a dyslexic writer battling with words to avoid the perils of the slushpile. Friday, 31 July 2015. Confessions of an X- Doodler. It was whist following Lou’s family’s progress that I had an epiphany; I realised that I no longer doodle. So whilst reading all the enthusiastic posts people have been posting about discovering doodling I was amazed to realise that I can’t recall the last time I doodled. This got me thinking what has changed? To celeb...
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Sally Poyton: January 2014
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Writer, Artist and Fairy Tale Enthusiast. Follow my quest as a dyslexic writer battling with words to avoid the perils of the slushpile. Friday, 24 January 2014. Never Judge a Book by it's Movie? But Trust the Movie to Help Kid's Stretch their Reading Abilities to Read the Book! Movies, however I watched lots of (still do), and if I really liked a movie then I’d read the book, and even if they were way beyond my reading capabilities, as I knew that there'd be a pay-off. I knew I’d like th...When The Whal...
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Sally Poyton: March 2013
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Writer, Artist and Fairy Tale Enthusiast. Follow my quest as a dyslexic writer battling with words to avoid the perils of the slushpile. Monday, 25 March 2013. Western Fairy Tales and Manga Part 2; Fruits Baskets by Natsuki Takaya. Western Fairy Tales and Manga Part 2;. Fruits Baskets by Natsuki Takaya. This is the slightly delayed follow up to Part 1 of Fairy Tales and Manga which focused on Tachibana Higuchi's, ‘Gakuen Alice’. To read part 1, click here. Unable to control when they change, means a life...
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Sally Poyton: September 2013
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Writer, Artist and Fairy Tale Enthusiast. Follow my quest as a dyslexic writer battling with words to avoid the perils of the slushpile. Monday, 23 September 2013. Fairy Tale Lands - Not as far away as you think! Yesterday whilst walking the dogs in Black Park. Buckinghamshire), we stumbled on an old building, which I thought was odd I hadn't noticed before, but just as I was questioning my sanity I noticed that the aged stone was in fact actually plywood. Snow White and The Huntsman. As a major location.
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Sally Poyton: Preparing for Submission with an Agent.
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Writer, Artist and Fairy Tale Enthusiast. Follow my quest as a dyslexic writer battling with words to avoid the perils of the slushpile. Thursday, 13 August 2015. Preparing for Submission with an Agent. Writing wise my manuscript has evolved from YA to MG, from 80,000 words down to 40,000, and then back up to 54,000, over no less than ten edits. Now, Shelley and I are both gearing up to submit it in the autumn. Of course having an agent means that I’m not doing all the submission packages myself, b...
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Sally Poyton: June 2015
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Writer, Artist and Fairy Tale Enthusiast. Follow my quest as a dyslexic writer battling with words to avoid the perils of the slushpile. Friday, 26 June 2015. Celebrating Independent Bookshop Week 2015, with a blog post dedicated to my family’s favourite Indy Bookshop – Mostly Books! The shop has really helped my small people to embrace a love for books through events, competitions, meeting authors, and by finding books that really engage them. My daughter helped out on the Nosy Crow Take Over in celebra...
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Sally Poyton: June 2014
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Writer, Artist and Fairy Tale Enthusiast. Follow my quest as a dyslexic writer battling with words to avoid the perils of the slushpile. Tuesday, 10 June 2014. A time to CELEBRATE Fairy Tales and Hell Hounds! A TIME TO CELEBRATE FAIRY TALES! So last week Richard Dawkins, managed to upset almost everyone I know by doing a talk at the Cheltenham Science fair where he allegedly (and now stringently denies). Said that ‘fairy tales are harmful to children’. All in all whether Richard Dawkins intended to or no...
