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Force Me to Tell You My Secret Hobby
Today I’m blogging over at YA Outside the Lines and this month we are taking about our hobbies and how they inform our writing. I’m spilling the beans on my secret hobby, so you might want to pop over...
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Rereading When There’s A Mountain of New Books
In general, life is too short to reread books–even great ones–when there are so many amazing books out there that I haven’t read yet. There are mountains of books to be consumed and I’m greedy. But...
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It Takes Brains to Help Families with Autism
It takes brains to help families. Really–brains. How do I know this? Because my very good friends, the Matthews Family have told me so. (picture courtesy of the It Takes Brains website) And I believe...
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Sneaking up on Your Characters
I promised you I’d be back today after my vacation and my blogcation. It was a good thing I took the blogaction (small break from posting) because the internet where we were staying could be a bit...
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Art Stimulates Art: Dancing with my Writer Sistahs
Things I did besides finishing my packing for SCBWI LA… -I got my hair done. -Made homemade soup and zucchini crabbiless crab cakes for dinner. -Read to the boys for an hour. -And of course I caught up...
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THE LINE
The last couple of days I’ve been knee deep in a revision. You’ve probably heard me blabber on about this before, but revision is my favorite part of the writing process–until it’s not. Hey! Don’t roll...
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Why the SCBWI Works–It’s Not Head Count, It’s Heart Count
I’ve been thinking a lot about the SCBWI (Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators) lately. Okay–I always think a lot about the SCBWI. Type #scbwi into my blog and you’ll find post after...
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Beautiful Writing
I had the pleasure of seeing the Broadway Musical BEAUTIFUL on Sunday. I loved it! Amazing story and music–the performances were superb. I’m a HUGE fangirl of Jessie Mueller now. But it also burrowed...
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Write Sticky: Being in Charge of Your Own Behavior Modification
Normally Tuesday blogs are a problem when I’m coming off of a three day weekend. But this isn’t just any big weekend, it’s back-to-school week in the Sabatini house. And that mean’s yesterday,...
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Art Stimulates Art: We Make Ripples
Ahhhh last night was the season finale of one of my favorite shows–So You Think You Can Dance. As many of you know, I’m not just a writer–I’ve been a dancer all my life. And the one think I’ve found is...
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Let’s Talk About Platform, Marketing and Social Media aka Publishing PMS
For the purpose of this blog post, I’m going to lump platform, marketing and social media into one big ball of extrovertedness. For short we can call it Publishing PMS. And believe me when I say there...
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All We Have To Do Is Remember What We Know
Today is the 13th Anniversary of 9/11 and I’m always reminded of how I was glued to the TV–holding my infant son–my oldest boy who was 7 months old at the time. This past week I’ve watched my 13yo...
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The Novelty Has Worn Off
Ohhhhh! Bright and shiny and new! Isn’t that how things always start off? Think about back to school–everyone starts off perky and excited and about two weeks in the fluffy, fun, get-to-know you stuff...
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Security Creates Sleepy Hamsters, Fuel for Publishing Adventures and Friendships
In August as the end of the summer drifted away and the impending doom of school lay before my boys, I noticed my 11yo become increasingly more anxious. He’d had a rough time with an abrupt school...
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Guidance and Inspiration
Last week has left me needing guidance and inspiration from those who are wiser and more eloquent than I… “To be Jedi is to face the truth, and choose. Give off light, or darkness, Padawan. Be a...
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Dropping Balls
My blogging has been sporadic at best. I’m trying to get my act together. But the truth is I’m dropping balls left and right LOL! Somedays I drop the laundry ball…one of my favorites to “drop.” Other...
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How to Avoid Fartbaggery: A Vlog Brothers Classic
How to avoid fartbaggery A Vlog Brothers classic… And did I apologize for working on my manuscript instead of this blog post? Yesterday was a great writing day. That doesn’t make me a fartbag,...
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The Flow State
Time keeps spinning out of control… I’m losing track of blog posts, the laundry is piling up and no other “projects” in the house are getting done…much to my husband’s disappointment. But I love it...
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Internet Whiplash
Lately I’m having an unusually hard time coming up with blog posts. At first I thought my struggle was because I’m busy, both with life and writing. And I’m sure that plays a role, but after careful...
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Quirky Don’t Want To’s
Lately I’ve been thinking about Quirky Don’t Want To’s. Never heard of them before? I’m not surprised, I like to make stuff up whenever it’s convenient. In my world, the Quirky Don’t Want To’s are the...
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