The word enthusiasm comes from the Greek root entheos, “having the god within.”
April 27, 2012
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Tag Archives: inspiration
January 31, 2009
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Idea Starters in One Sentence
Hurting for story ideas? Head over to One Sentence: True stories told in one sentence. Any one of these would be an awesome first line of a book, like: I only realized how strange my life was when I received … Continue reading
January 26, 2009
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ALA Award Winners
The American Library Association announced its annual literary award winners today and one of our Boulder-area SCBWI members won a Newberry!!! Congratulations to Ingrid Law for her novel, Savvy!
November 17, 2008
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Three Disasters Plus an Ending
I just read something that might save my novel: I like to structure a story as “three disasters plus an ending”. Each of the disasters takes a quarter of the book to develop and the ending takes the final quarter. … Continue reading
November 14, 2008
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Under-The-Bed Books
I’m at the point in NaNo when I’m behind, I’m bored with my own story (never a good sign) and I’m pretty much convinced that I’m the worst writer ever. So I dug out some of my inspirational books to … Continue reading
April 8, 2008
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RMC-SCBWI
Went to a great SCBWI conference this weekend in Lakewood, and I attended a wonderful session on “Nurturing a passion for stories.” Following are some of the snippets I wrote down as the wonderful presenter was speaking. Writing is the … Continue reading
March 30, 2008
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Inspiration
The Writer magazine this month lists 8 websites for inspiration for fiction writers, and I thought they were great! Here they are: Postsecret for plot ideas. Imagining Ourselves for characterization. Overheard in New York for dialogue. Crutial Minutiae (try saying … Continue reading