January 2010

A Day at Homeschool

Homeschooling

After a week, I’ve settled into a schedule I like.  (If you can even call it a schedule.  I don’t really DO schedules.)  A routine, if you will.  The only REAL times are in bold.  Everything else is an approximate guess.  And BTW, it’s really LONG cause I figured you wanted the details and all [...]

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Better Safe Than Sorry

Garden

Facing a week of lows in the single digits, I harvested all the collards, broccoli, and cabbage. Part of me wanted to see just how cold it could go, maybe with a row cover, but, as I mentioned in the post title, I’m a coward when it comes to these things.  I left a couple [...]

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Good Critique

When you’re starting out, any non-relative critique is a good critique. Doesn’t matter if the person is a great writer or not. It’s important to experience your work through another’s eyes. Writing is about communication. You can’t communicate until you know how you’re being heard. So, how do you find a critique group? My crit [...]

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Splitting Firewood

DIY

I learned something new recently.  Around here, and presumably in most areas, when a tree trimming crew disposes of a tree it pays a dumping fee.  Our local fee ranges from $50 for easily mulch-able branches to $75 for big trunks.  For the tree trimmers, especially the small companies, this can eat into their profits. [...]

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Changing Genres

I am a poetry PB writer.  But, my agent would like a mid-grade mystery from me.  Unfortunately, I haven’t ever written anything in prose that he likes. Bummer. My teacher, Anastasia, tells me that I need to go read a few mid-grade mysteries to get in the groove. I feel like I’ll never get the [...]

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