The NEW Whidbey Island Student Writer’s Contest has begun! A new timeline and new prizes, the Student Writer’s Contest is for grades 6 through 12 and is open now. The deadline is January 15.
See Student Writer’s link for more info. Now you know what to do over the holidays!
And I’m bound and determined to finish The Destiny Stone, third book in the Wolfproof Trilogy. Now if there wasn’t so much wrapping to do…Where are the elves when you need them?
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What’s the difference between a first draft and a revision? My students hate to revise they think it should all fall into place the first time pen goes to paper. Ok, they’re willing to concede that you need to go back and check on punctuation, grammar, spelling, but shouldn’t the story have all come out [...]
Christmas Poem
G.K.Chesterton
There fared a mother driven forth
Out of an inn to roam;
In the place where she was homeless
All men are at home.
The crazy stable close at hand,
With shaking timber and shifting sand,
Grew a stronger thing to abide and stand
Than the square stones of Rome.
For men are homesick in their homes,
And strangers under the sun,
And they [...]