Ten Things So Lit
It’s Banned Book Month and I’d just like to say let’s stop doing this in America…
These Egg Bites because writers need to eat. High in protein with no crash or coma following. I eat one nearly every morning and feel goooooood.
My accountability writing buddy: Baby Hal is visiting from Montreal and has reminded me that writing during a baby’s unpredictable twenty minute cat nap translates to words on the page and is exactly what will write the novel - something scrolling will never do!
I mean…how can this snuggle bug not help your plot development?My son and daughter working on a film together: My boy is studying film and roped his new freshman sister into having a starring role in his next horror film for “Screamfest.” I cannot wait to see the final cut…
How to Love Your Enemies with Arthur Brooks: Weaving together science, story, faith, and humor, Brooks goes deeply personal and issues a clear challenge: if we want a different kind of country, we have to become a different kind of people. Watch him speak at the same university where Charlie Kirk was assassinated a few weeks ago.
What Makes a Boy a Man? Recently, Proctor Academy brought the film, GONE GUYS to campus and engaged in conversation. If you have a chance to watch it, please do! It reminded me of a conversation in Ten Thousand Tries, when Golden’s dad asks Golden, “Is that what makes a boy a man?”
Every single person you meet is wearing an invisible sign that says, “Do I matter?” -from Kelly Corrigan’s conversation with Dave DeSteno, professor of psychology and host of How God Works.
Dory Fantasamagory: 1 a children’s series by author illustrator, Abby Hanlon. It’s funny and always a good idea to read the kind of books you want to write.
The Unexpected Upside of Banning Phones in Schools: KIDS ARE READING BOOKS AGAIN.
On Writing: “Save nothing,” writes Dani Shapiro. “Not for a rainy day, not for when you’re stronger, or less haunted, or your parents have died. Save nothing, because it is in hurling ourselves at the page that the invisible becomes visible, that the thoughts become known, even if not to us, not now, not right away. Save nothing, because the language you find today will be different from the language you will find tomorrow, in one year, or five, or ten, or fifty.”
What’s your “so lit” things this week?
Amy 💖
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The Unforgettable Guinevere St. Clair is part-mystery, part understanding of the human heart 💖
Ten Thousand Tries is Golden’s quest to save his dad and the soccer team ⚽
The McNifficents is one summer with six rambunctious kids and their miniature-schnauzer nanny 🐕 New Hampshire’s 2024 Great Reads for Kids selection!
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