I promised I'd tell you about my class, and since it has taken over my brain, here it is.

Make Your Own Myth: Trickster Tales is a course I created. It's offered offered through Vermont's Talent Development Institute, two one-week programs for gifted children. We spend time talking about tricksters in different cultures and about similarities ( Read more... )

Probably 10 years ago I took a writing-for-children workshop and started a novel. I never did complete the first draft, because I never found the ending and there were all sorts of other problems. The protagonists were the wrong age for what I thought they could do. But ever since, when I see one of my classmates, she asks me if I''ve finished it ( Read more... )

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Did it! Another 1.5 poems in 20 minutes.

Not only my 15 minute commitment, but I got myself out the door and took a walk before I did.

Happy writing, LJ friends!  --I'll spare you the rant about living where the ISP is like the girl with the curl. Love my rural life, but wish technology were more dependable in it.

Did it. Half an hour, with interruptions, so 15 minutes it is. But another interesting subplot reared its head.

Thanks to

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Hmm. 1.5 poems in 20 minutes. I would have kept going except the last one threw out some information I'm going to have to mull over while I'm weeding.

Don't you love it when a character reveals something you didn't know about him or her? Something that wraps them tighter into the plot and is completely logical. It's like "of course!"

Back to the

 15 minutes stretched to thirty while I waited for BD to have a job interview. That's right. 8:30 am on July 4 someone somewhere was doing a job interview. When I wasn't scribbling there was plenty of opportunity to gather material by watching all the young people arrive for their resort jobs ( Read more... )

I am so glad I put my 15 minutes in this morning. As my comment to that previous post says, I also added a few more words at lunch. But having spent the afternoon immersed in drafting a paying gig, my brain is spent. Could I do 15 now? If I had to. But I'm glad I don't.

Did it as soon as I got home from the morning's errands. 245 words and a great jumping off point for 15 minutes more if I can work it in later. 

 Today I got my fifteen minutes in after a morning walk. Instead of waiting for the computer to boot up, which is always too slow no matter how fast it is, I grabbed my notebook for this project and got right down to work. Result: 2 more rough poems ( Read more... )