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Colleen’s Weekly Tanka Poetry Challenge 2/26/2020: Poet’s Choice Traci Kenworth
This is an update to an early posting. The first is a Haiku with 2/3/2 form with season changes. Seasons blood moon night erupts cat sees Storm Rising This is the 5/7/5 frame with nature in mind. lightning flashes pinkclouds burst across the nighttimesky reflections deep At lastly, 3/5/3 about change in general. a small…
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Book Talk 2/26/2020: What I’m Reading in YA Traci Kenworth
Book Talk 2/7/2020: What I’m Reading in YA Traci Kenworth Nefertiti’s Curse (a House of Night novella) by P.C. Cast and Kristen Cast, Bloodwitch by Susan Dennard, Sightwitch by Susan Dennard, The Book of Dust by Phillip Pullman, How to Write a Children’s Book from the Institute of Children’s Literature, The Vine Witch by Luanne…
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Open book blog hop – What is the most unethical practice in the publishing industry?
Welcome to the Blog Hop. This week the topic is: What is the most unethical practice in the publishing industry? I have read some of the other posts discussing this topic and I am grateful that I was never a victim of unscrupulous publishing practices. It seems there are a lot of vanity publishers out…
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Colleen’s 2020 Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 166, #ThemePrompt
WELCOME TO TANKA TUESDAY! Challenge Badge It’s the fourth week of the month! Ken Gierke selected this month’s theme prompt. On the Monday before the next challenge, I’ll select someone to choose next month’s theme. Have fun! Don’t forget to send me poetry examples for my poetry book. I’ll need: Tanka, Gogyohka, Haibun, Cinquain (all……
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Colleen’s Weekly Tanka Challenge 2020 Traci Kenworth 2/25/2020
Colleen’s Weekly Tanka 2020 Challenge Traci Kenworth Synonym Words: Love & Harmony A Senryu doting dad wins peacebaby snuggled on his chestpow! punch to the chin
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Book Talk 2/25/2020 Traci Kenworth
Book Talk 2/14/2020: Mike Anka’s Dark Alley Traci Kenworth Dark Alley by Mike Anka. YA Drama. Austin Macauley Books Nov. 29, 2019. Netgalley. Amazon’s Blurb: Dramatic circumstances bring together two people, and there is a spark between them. She is fourteen, homeless, smart, wild, and alive. Meanwhile, he is forty, a veteran, straight and slim,…
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Writerly Things 2/25/2020: Hearing “No” isn’t a Problem, Hearing “Yes” is. Or rather, the Yes is Hard to Come by. Traci Kenworth
Writerly Things 2/10/2020: Hearing “No” isn’t a Problem, Hearing a “Yes” is. Traci Kenworth We hear “No” so often as writers and as people in general that it’s not a problem. Meaning, we’re accustomed to no. It’s the “Yes,” that we don’t hear enough. Especially, as writers. No in Everyday Instances. Trying to get a…
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Book Talk 2/21/2020 P.C. Cast’s & Kristen Cast’s House of Night Series: Neferet’s Curse Traci Kenworth
Book Talk: P.C. Cast’s & Kristin Cast’s House of Night series: Neferet’s Curse Traci Kenworth Neferet’s Curse by P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast. St. Martin’s Griffin Feb. 19.2013. Amazon’s blurb: The White City, 1893: In turn-of-the-century Chicago, with the World’s Fair bringing bustle and excitement to her home city, sixteen-year-old Emily Wheiler should be reveling in…