Last year, I went to my first writers’ conference – Pike’s Peak, down in Colorado Springs, CO. To summarize, I was terrified that I was either unprepared or would come out of feeling dejected, but I had a lovely time,
Play/Musical Logic
My husband and I are rather avid theater-goers. We have a season subscription at the local major theater complex for the big musicals that come through, and we supplement that by going to various local theaters’ (and occasionally high schools’)
Writing Distractions
How’s your writing gone lately, Squiders? Got lots done? Well, I’m here to derail that. Bwha. Hey, if I can’t focus, why should you? If you need a break, why not try one of these time wasters? 1. Social Media
April is National Poetry Month
April: not a bad month, literarily. All the writing challenges you could ever want, plus a celebration of that most elusive of literary forms. Ah, poetry. Done right, it can give you a feeling, a memory, put a ray of
April Fools!
I can hear you now. Kit, you say, shaking your head, do you have a ceiling turtle gnawing on your brain? It’s still March. April 1st is next Monday; you blog on Mondays. You could do an April Fools post
Why is Tag Called Tag?
I’m not going to answer that question, I’m just wondering. Does it have something to do with tagging animals? Except it seems like the game is a lot older than tracking animals, so who knows. Anyway, KD Sarge has tagged
Revisiting Picture Books
January I brought up how I was going to be participating in #kitlitart’s PB dummy challenge. It’ll be new and exciting! I said. It’ll be fun! I said. Turns out writing picture books is really hard. It’s interesting, because I’ve
A Medley of Arts
I have a confession. I hang with the infamous Ian on a fairly regular basis, usually every other Wednesday, and a lot of times we will brainstorm blog post ideas, which is why Wednesday posts tend to be a little
Reliquaries and Ramblings
Sometimes it’s interesting what hoops you have to go through in order to get internet. In fact, I’m pretty sure I’m losing, and it may be very late when this finally gets posted. (Yep, losing. Apparently this particular university requires
When in Doubt: Aliens
I make no claims towards being a rational person. Sure, I can fake it pretty well, but then I draw pictures of landsquid and stick them on the internet, so I’m pretty sure I’m fooling no one. Much as I
