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Painted Times and Illustrated Lines: NESCBWI 2014 Recap
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Saturday, July 19, 2014. Award Winning Illustrators Kevin Barry and Marlo Garnsworthy. These past few months have been a whirlwind of excitement and change! As always, there were a lot of great workshops this year! A few that I really enjoyed included:. Facial Expression and Body Language for Characters in Children's Graphic Novels and Comics by Ed Briant. First Look: Your Single Best Piece Critiqued with Ruth Sanderson. And Art Directors Diane Earley and Nicole De Las Heras. These two were hilarious!
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Painted Times and Illustrated Lines: July 2014
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Saturday, July 19, 2014. Award Winning Illustrators Kevin Barry and Marlo Garnsworthy. These past few months have been a whirlwind of excitement and change! As always, there were a lot of great workshops this year! A few that I really enjoyed included:. Facial Expression and Body Language for Characters in Children's Graphic Novels and Comics by Ed Briant. First Look: Your Single Best Piece Critiqued with Ruth Sanderson. And Art Directors Diane Earley and Nicole De Las Heras. These two were hilarious!
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Wordy Birdie: Book Cover Illustration: My Process for "The Genie's Gift" by Chris Eboch
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Chirpings about writing and kidlit, editing and grammar, process and inspiration.with birds. Friday, November 1, 2013. Book Cover Illustration: My Process for "The Genie's Gift" by Chris Eboch. I have just completed a most enjoyable project: illustrating the cover for author Chris Eboch. S new middle grade book, The Genie's Gift. Soon to be released, and I thought I'd share my process with you. Chris had stipulated that the genie not be demonic or scary, and so we settled on this kind of face and express...
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Wordy Birdie: It's about time I said something...
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Chirpings about writing and kidlit, editing and grammar, process and inspiration.with birds. Wednesday, March 12, 2014. It's about time I said something. And I haven't posted since the very start of the year. Where did that time go? And why did it go so swiftly? Well, I have been editing up a storm (and we're all storm weary, right? I'm also deep into preparation for the New England SCBWI 2014 conference, working on a few new portfolio pieces, which I'm excited to share with you soon. You can read more a...
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Wordy Birdie: Back to the Drawing Board
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Chirpings about writing and kidlit, editing and grammar, process and inspiration.with birds. Thursday, July 14, 2011. Back to the Drawing Board. It’s 3:40, I’m all caught up with work, Chickling is at the Elder Birds for a couple of nights, and so it’s time to start my homework. The dishes can wait. I’m allowed to start my homework. I’m “actively allowing” myself to draw—how very cool and strangely distorted is that? It, what I'd produced, and I certainly didn’t feel that others would feel it, at l...
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Wordy Birdie: A Happy New Year Offer
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Chirpings about writing and kidlit, editing and grammar, process and inspiration.with birds. Thursday, January 2, 2014. A Happy New Year Offer. To celebrate New Year, 2014, I am offering a 20% discount on any editing and critique services contracted during the month of January. Applies to services for:. Other manuscripts, including fiction for adults and non-fiction, will be considered, based on suitability. Editing of query/cover letters. And based on total word count. From the work to be edited. And te...
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Wordy Birdie: The Perils of Editing
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Chirpings about writing and kidlit, editing and grammar, process and inspiration.with birds. Tuesday, December 16, 2014. The Perils of Editing. A short memoir in haiku. My mind is quite fried:. It thinks, 5, 7, 5—. My thoughts now in seventeen. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Visit Wordy Bird Studio. There was an error in this gadget. See my profile at Book Editing Associates. Or email me :. Wordybirdie AT gmail.com. View my complete profile. Marlo Garnsworthy is a. Editor with Book Editing Associates.
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Wordy Birdie: Of Resolutions & Rituals, Purges, Goals, & Owls
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Chirpings about writing and kidlit, editing and grammar, process and inspiration.with birds. Thursday, January 1, 2015. Of Resolutions and Rituals, Purges, Goals, and Owls. I truly love this time of year. New Year is my absolute favorite holiday, and I have various rituals associated with it. I thought I’d share them with you; I really believe in their power and efficacy—and my wish for all of you for 2015 is empowerment and effectiveness. Wordy Bird’s New Year’s Rituals (live and uncut). A terribly impo...
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Wordy Birdie: Punctuation Matters: How to Denote a Character's Thoughts
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Chirpings about writing and kidlit, editing and grammar, process and inspiration.with birds. Thursday, September 23, 2010. Punctuation Matters: How to Denote a Character's Thoughts. This week, I was involved in an interesting discussion on our regional SCBWI. Listserv. One member asked a whether a character’s thoughts should be denoted by quotation marks, no quotation marks, or italics. This is a commonly asked question, and this was part of my short answer:. The Chicago Manual of Style. 8217;s fabulous ...
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Wordy Birdie: Why the world needs fine editors and a good, hard proofread.
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Chirpings about writing and kidlit, editing and grammar, process and inspiration.with birds. Monday, September 20, 2010. Why the world needs fine editors and a good, hard proofread. Read the story here. Need I say more? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Visit Wordy Bird Studio. There was an error in this gadget. See my profile at Book Editing Associates. Or email me :. Wordybirdie AT gmail.com. Children's book author, editor, writing teacher, illustrator, nature enthusiast, and bird lover. It’s a...
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