{"id":2245,"date":"2007-11-07T09:45:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-07T09:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2245"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:27:51","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:27:51","slug":"crazy-flakes-and-wintry-blasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2245","title":{"rendered":"Crazy Flakes and Wintry Blasts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oh! My word! Did you see that AMAZING cycle<\/a>flake? Or the Scotland themed one? Or the gorgeous
<\/a>butterfly? Keep your eyes open – there beauties on the auction block! Check with Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast<\/a> for day Twenty-Four of the Illustrations of Awesomeness known as Robert’s Snow<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Writers:<\/b> If you don’t have time to read this today, print the page, bookmark the website, do something<\/i>. Ypulse’s Anastasia<\/a> has some really awesome tips on how to sell your book sans Ms. Winfrey. (Although, I’m sure she’d take the Oprah Bump should Oprah choose to bump her!)<\/p>\n

Today, Salon<\/a> is excerpting, “Red: The Next Generation of American Writers — Teenage Girls — on What Fires Up Their Lives Today,”<\/i> edited by Amy Goldwasser (Hudson Street Press, 2007) Listen to the voices — tough, cynical, grieving, knowing — of four teens. Experience from the horse’s mouth.<\/p>\n

Deborah Davis<\/a> on teens in the juvenile system — and their access to books. Colleen has already suggested that juvenile halls are a great place to donate books — kids doing time have nothing much to entertain them. Books can make a difference here, people.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, I heard a poem whose last lines have really stuck with me. “The Hour” by Michael Lind, (from Parallel Lives \u00a9 Etruscan Press, 2008) closes with these words:<\/p>\n

…soon, though the hour
Comes to corrode all your power,
Pleasure and faith, with the damp dread that it daily assigns you.
How you evade it defines you.<\/i><\/p>\n

That strikes such a chord.
May you be well-defined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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