{"id":2325,"date":"2007-10-02T11:46:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-02T11:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2325"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:27:31","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:27:31","slug":"and-more-from-blog-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2325","title":{"rendered":"And More from the Blog World"},"content":{"rendered":"

From squeetus<\/a> blog:<\/p>\n

Professor: Let me introduce you to Shannon Bryner <\/i>[Shannon Hale’s maiden name]. She was one of my students.<\/p>\n

Bookseller: Actually, we know Shannon. She’s kind of famous.<\/p>\n

Professor: That’s right! I heard you wrote a couple of kids’ books?<\/p>\n

Me: Yeah, that’s right.<\/p>\n

I could’ve mentioned the Newbery Honor but I don’t think it would have meant anything to her. I could’ve mentioned the New York Times best seller list and published in 15 languages and that sort of thing, but that would have been a real neener-neener, wouldn’t it? I usually don’t offer information about my profession to people I meet. I’m a stay-at home mom and I’m happy for people to assume that’s all I do. And the awkwardness of the replies, “Oh! Children’s books. Hmm…” is something I like to avoid.<\/i><\/p>\n

“A couple of kids’ books?!”
One wonders if with the advent of Austenland<\/i>, that kindly professor’s opinion of Hale has risen, or — ? Anyway, read<\/a> more of Shannon Hale’s three part conversation with author Megan Whalen Turner.<\/p>\n

Oh, dear<\/i>. We’ve many of us complained about the complete bewilderment that is the alleged cinematic version of The Dark is Rising.<\/i> The fact that now Susan Cooper<\/a> seems a bit confused by it makes me quite sad. “You do have to do violence to a book to make it into a screenplay \u2014 the two mediums are so different,” she says. Violence – a grievously apt word, methinks.<\/p>\n

Meg Rosoff suggests writers get ready for that one question<\/a> that always gets asked… And no, it’s not “where do you get your ideas?” That’s actually, in some ways, easier…!<\/p>\n

Via Jen Robinson’s Book Page<\/a>, a quiet phenomenon that started with former California journalist Jeff Rubin’s National Punctuation Day<\/a> has sprouted wings and is fluttering across the hemisphere. After Jen initially reported on the event, she heard from an Aussie who was interested in making it a

<\/a>WORLD Punctuation Day<\/a> event!<\/p>\n

People, this is exciting! I already enjoy dropping by the amusing blog of unnecessary<\/a> quotation marks — those are simply fun. But with a World Punctuation Day, my Most Egregious Misuse postings would fall into dust — And I would be thrilled! And to think we’ll be able to say we “knew her when!”<\/p>\n

Jen Robinson: helping to change the world, one egregious punctuation misuse at a time…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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