Simmer Starters – September 12, 2015
Simmer Starters today: young adult novel key elements, why boys should play with sticks, how fiction helps us reimagine life for the disabled, how to speak geek, and more. There are a lot of links...
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Simmer Starters – January 22, 2016
Land Travel Before Engines (Chris Winkle) – This is an incredibly useful article for any author whose characters are going on a journey! And full of interesting factoids, too…like this one! “It was...
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Simmer Starters – January 29, 2016
Fairy Tales Could Be Older Than You Ever Imagined (Erin Blakemore) – Did you know that some fairy tales (in older versions) may have been around since before the Flood?? Considering we know very...
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Simmer Starters – February 5, 2016
The Mission Field of Young Adult Fiction (Mike Duran) – Some interesting thoughts here. I like the quote from Mary Weber: “[Teens] want to be entertained and respected that they can find elements of...
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Simmer Starters – February 19, 2016
Frank, the Beagle of Unexpected Plot Twists (Janeen Ippolito) – My other links today are kind of heavy, but not this one – enjoy this fun look inside an intuitive writer’s brain. Is a Surrogate a...
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Simmer Starters – May 13, 2016
Since I missed my Simmers last week I had a lot of saved links to choose from! There are some really good articles here. Don’t Let Your Girls Grow Up To Be Moms (Gretchen E K Engel) – Don’t be turned...
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Simmer Starters – May 21, 2016
Our Respectable Sin – Laziness (David Prince) – Hard-hitting words here! “We have come to believe that the reason we work is so that we can rest. Work in this way of thinking is a necessary evil, and...
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Simmer Starters – May 27, 2016
Just a friendly reminder that #WIPjoy is coming up in less than a week!!! Keep your eyes on my Twitter and Facebook pages for the upcoming list of daily prompts, and I might post them to the blog too....
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Not a whole lot of Simmers this week…there has been a lot on my mind internally and I haven’t been reading very many articles! Three Ways Superpowers Can Charge Your Story (Janeen Ippolito) – Three...
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Simmer Starters – June 11, 2016
Lots of fantasy links and a couple of cultural ones this week! Love and Comfort in Fantasy, or Why George R.R. Martin Isn’t the American Tolkien (John Adcox) – While I eschew Game of Thrones for the...
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