{"id":3162,"date":"2005-09-24T20:12:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-24T20:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=3162"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:25:07","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:25:07","slug":"news-tidbits-from-scbwi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=3162","title":{"rendered":"News Tidbits from SCBWI"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my latest SCBWI e-newsletter was the news that Scottish writer Julie Bertagna had won the Eco-Prize for her young adult novel Exodus, set in a future version of Glasgow. The book sounded interesting enough on its own for me to want to scrounge my library for it. But then I visited her website and loved reading her comments about her writing process<\/a>–things every writer can relate to:<\/p>\n

I mustn’t waste time. But I do. I drop my daughter at school and tell myself I must grab a coffee in Little Italy to jump-start my brain. Staring out of the window at the traffic and flicking through a newspaper or a book is essential. I used to feel guilty about this until a friend told me work rituals are a warm-up for your brain, so now I do it with relish and think smugly of everyone else stuck in their offices and classrooms!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Also, here’s a link<\/a> to First Book’s Hurricane Katrina Book Relief Campaign, where you can sponsor a new book for as little as 50 cents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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