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Category Archives: Conference Wisdom
Gol! How I met my goals when I thought I hadn’t set any
This week, YA Highway’s Road Trip Wednesday asks, where are you on your reading and writing goals? I have blogged before about how I don’t like setting goals and making resolutions. They kind of stress me out and bring up … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Conference Wisdom, The Writing Life
Tagged awakening, crystal, discoverability, exhibit a, goals, karen sandler, lee and low, marketing, revolution, TANKBORN, tu books
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What Should a Writer’s Conference Be?
Having just returned from the SCBWI winter conference in NY, I started pondering what the best format for an annual writer’s conference should be. Then it occurred to me that there may not be a “best.” Partly because the attendees … Continue reading
RTW – Writing Books & Writing Advice
This week, YA Highway’s Road Trip Wednesday asks us to Share your most inspiring and/or motivational video, book, or quote on writing. All those NaNoWriMo participants out there nearing November’s half-way point could probably use an extra push toward the … Continue reading
#LA12SCBWI – Day 3
A day that started great, including a killer chocolate mousse for lunch dessert, then got a little weird on the way home (an accident that trapped me and hundreds of other motorists for an hour on Highway 99). The conference … Continue reading
#LA12SCBWI – Day 2
My impressions of the second day of the annual SCBWI summer conference. Rough notes from five of the keynotes/workshops I attended. Karen Cushman talked about how writing rules often contradict one another, so we should either ignore rules or write … Continue reading
#LA12SCBWI – Day 1
Here are my impressions of the first day of the SCBWI annual summer conference. Kind of quick and dirty. First, the Arthur Levine keynote in which he discussed timelessness this way: When a story captures a moment of intimacy between … Continue reading
#LA12SCBWI – The Prelude
About an hour ago, my son and I arrived at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza for the SCBWI (Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators) big annual summer conference. The room is quite nice and very spacious. I hadn’t been … Continue reading
RTW – Dream Writer’s Conference
This week YA Highway‘s Road Trip Wednesday asks, What book and/or writing conference would you love to go to? I’ve been lucky to attend tons of great writers conferences over the years (the majority of them RWA annual conferences when … Continue reading
Posted in Conference Wisdom, The Writing Life, Travel
Tagged bologna, book fairs, foreign rights, frankfurt, london, maui, novelists inc, rwa, writers conferences, writing, ya highway
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LTUE – Third Day
I’m home from LTUE, but I wanted to write a wrap-up of the last day of the symposium. I managed to make it to Kirk Shaw’s “THE GOOD AND THE BAD: Five Things to Do and Five Things to Avoid … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Conference Wisdom, The Writing Life
Tagged craft, kirk shaw, librarians, multi-cultural, writing
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