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Never enough time. This year has seven writing projects on the 'to do' list. I am hoping Life's Rules and the first Opal and Agate picture books will be done this fall.
Although The Carduan Chronicles: Ship Eighteen has a draft done, it is part of a trilogy that needs to have at least two books done before either is released. The Ship Nineteen draft is in progress, but is far from done.
There is a growing series of gardening essays on Ozark gardening. As I am busy taking photographs to illustrate the essays, this will be done next year.
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Karen GoatKeeper There are different kinds of writer's block. The simplest is just not feeling like writing. I generally make myself do some writing anyway. Time away …moreThere are different kinds of writer's block. The simplest is just not feeling like writing. I generally make myself do some writing anyway. Time away doing some chore or going for a walk can help if I think about what I am trying to do. This lets me get back into the writing project so I can sit down and write.
Another kind of writer's block is more serious. This one arrives when a book seems to fall apart. The story becomes unworkable. The plot blows up.
This is the hardest one to deal with. Each writing project has emotional ties. Some of the writing even in a disaster has appeal. It is hard to walk away admitting the project is done even if unfinished.
When this happens, I fight for a time but find it gets more frustrating each time I try to write on the project. The best cure is to go on to a different project. If the original idea has merit, the difficulties will start straightening out, the disastrous parts will drop away, the project will start to gel in a new form as the idea plays around in the mind at odd moments. Then it is time to tackle the project again.(less)
Karen GoatKeeper For me the best thing about being a writer is being able to escape into another world. It is like having a short vacation. The visit can be serious as…moreFor me the best thing about being a writer is being able to escape into another world. It is like having a short vacation. The visit can be serious as for nonfiction or exciting with thrills or fun with humorous things happening.(less)
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Dora's Story

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Capri Capers

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Broken Promises (Hazel Whit...

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For Love Of Goats

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"The Old Witch and the Wizard" and "Surprising Sharks"

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The Old Witch and the Wizard
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Author: Ida DeLage
Illustrator: Mimi Korach

This is an illustrated story.
The old witch has an excellent magic brew. A wizard wants the recipe and is resorting to new tactics to get it.
The illustrations are plain, but filled with expression and enhance the story.

Surprising Sharks
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Author: Nicola Davies
Illustrator: James Croft Read more of this blog post »
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Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.”
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“I like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its leaves are a little yellow, its tone mellower, its colours richer, and it is tinged a little with sorrow and a premonition of death. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor of the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and is content. From a knowledge of those limitations and its richness of experience emerges a symphony of colours, richer than all, its green speaking of life and strength, its orange speaking of golden content and its purple of resignation and death”
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