{"id":1976,"date":"2008-05-21T23:26:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-21T23:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1976"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:29:11","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:29:11","slug":"just-droppin-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1976","title":{"rendered":"Just Droppin’ In…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wanted to make sure to put in an appearance…I was out of town all weekend endur–I mean, enjoying family fun time<\/a>, which evidently makes me ill, since I now have a head cold. That’s my excuse, and I’m stickin’ to it. If I still feel bad tomorrow, I might have to put off this week’s Toon Thursday, which makes me sad. But sometimes it has to be done.
I’m hopelessly behind on blogs, too, but I’ve got a few links for y’all. One is that the 2008 Children’s Choice Book Award winners<\/a> were announced–YA-wise, the major (though unsurprising) bit of news there was that J.K. Rowling won the Author of the Year Award. Did I mention I wasn’t surprised? Yeah.
Next, a few Narnia-inspired news bits. On Cynsations, Cynthia Leitich Smith interviews Herbie Brennan<\/a> on his latest editorial project, Through the Wardrobe: Your Favorite Authors on C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia. He contributed an essay, along with Ned Vizzini, Sarah Beth Durst, Brent Hartinger, Elizabeth Wein, and many others. It sounds like a fascinating project if you’re a Narnia fan. Secondly, though there are a few spoilers, you won’t want to miss Fuse #8’s Caspian vs. Caspian<\/a>–Betsy’s take on comparing the book to the movie is quite amusing. If you haven’t clicked that link yet, let me just say this: Susan + Caspian + tongue action.
On the writing front, though I’m working on finishing a first draft, I’m also going back to revise my last “finished” draft with an eye to characterization, since those are the types of comments I received (when I received any) from agents. In addition to good old-fashioned brainstorming–writing down any and every idea, no matter how ridiculous–I’m also going to do some writing exercises from a book I like called What If? Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers by Anne Bernays and Pamela Painter. It’s just one of those books I randomly picked up ages ago, but it’s helpful for sparking ideas. Anybody out there have writing-related books whose advice they swear by?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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