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Monthly Archives: December 2010
Dec. Book Winners!
Congratulations to Lynn “Polilla” and Lynn Hauptmann our December free book winners! Lynn Polilla, our first winner, gets her choice of COLD SASSY TREE by Olive Ann Burns or HOME TO HOLLY SPRINGS by Jan Karon. Let me know, Lynn … Continue reading
RESOLUTION
Wild Word Friday! Okay, you know that a word which ends in tion must have Latin roots. The Latin form is resolutio. In Middle English RESOLUTION was resolucioun. So you can see that not much has changed since those days … Continue reading
Merry Christmas!
Wishing all of you a most blessed and joyous Christmas! Love, Sue
JOY
Wild Word Friday! What more appropriate word than JOY on this day before our Savior’s birth! This lovely word comes to English from the Old French, joie, and the Latin, gaudium. “…Behold I bring good tidings of great JOY, which … Continue reading
Christmas Glitches
It just came to our attention this morning that our mail order website has not been accepting orders! Yikes! Of all the times of the year for that to happen… So if you recently placed a UP Books order for my … Continue reading
11. Break Dance!
I don’t hear much about one of the major rules for novelists. That rule is SCHEDULE BREAK TIMES! Yes, you DO need to schedule definite writing times. Once a week or once a day or a specific number of pages or … Continue reading
TOYS
Wild Word Friday! Each year my husband Neil and I are blessed to spend some of our holidays with our little granddaughters. I’ve been making doll clothes since October and shopping for TOYS, not only for my own granddaughters, but … Continue reading
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10. Plot devices
Okay, believe it or not, you’re actually ready to begin putting down on paper, plotwise, what’s been simmering in your head for days, months, maybe years. There are a lot of ways to plot, and you should choose one that works for … Continue reading
MERRY
Wild Word Friday! Christmas is getting close, so I thought it would be appropriate to investigate a Christmas-y word – MERRY. I don’t know about you, but for me MERRY brings England to mind as in “MERRY Olde”. MERRY is … Continue reading
Sparkles anyone?
I have a huge Christmas card list, but I don’t mind sitting down and writing Christmas cards. It’s actually one of the more restful activities of Christmas, not nearly so taxing as putting lights on trees or trying to figure out what to … Continue reading