Serendib Writing

Schedule When I was diagnosed with cancer survivors told me the waiting was the worst. It wasn’t the worst, but it was pretty bad. Two months waiting to learn the staging, to formulate a plan. Once the plan was in place, I could cope — five months of chemo, then surgery and recovery, twelve weeks […]

Weirdly exhausted. Maybe it’s all the gardening I’ve been doing because it’s shockingly warm out right now, maybe it’s the emotional weight of the last few weeks. I don’t know. But I think I may need to try to nap or at least rest if I’m going to make it through the school board meeting

Editing to note — I simultaneously posted this first section on a kid-lit FB page, and got all my questions answered. 🙂 Part 2, I could still use help with, though. ***** Kid lit conference / agent question. I have two picture books written, and am making good process through a draft of a middle-grade

Just wrote a scene where my 10-year-old protagonist is worried that her grandfather is too old to be fighting the forces of evil, and I took a second to calculate how old he would likely be. She has a sister several years older, so if I figure his daughter was around 22 when she started