Kristin Wolden Nitz
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I am endlessly fascinated by the Olympics. I will watch almost any event. This afternoon it’s been Nordic combined, biatholon, and luge. And yes, I will be tuning in for the more popular figure skating tonight. While I love watching these…
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Naming Characters II
In an earlier post, I wrote about some of my naming problems for a protagonist. When I ran my list of new names for that person past my various critique groups, I got a wide variety of answers. Elisa was…
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First click of the day
Fuse #8 continues to be one of my first clicks of the day as I check out her unscientific poll of the top 100 chapter books. Sometimes I kick myself that I didn’t add a book to my list. Today, I…
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Fuse #8’s Top Hundred Countdown Begins
I have a feeling that I’ll be checking the blog of librarian Betsy Bird quite regularly as she counts down the top 100 chapter books. This morning she had 91-100. Ms. Bird not only lists the books, but also puts…
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Naming Characters
Naming characters is always a challenge, but often trying to change the name at a later date is even worse. Characters can be stubborn. In fact, one named Werner in DEFENDING IRENE refused. I offered him at least twenty other options. …
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Top 100 Chapter Books
Librarian Betsy Bird at Fuse#8 is doing an unscientific poll of the Top 100 chapter books. It closes tonight at midnight if you care to participate. I probably would have seen this before if I hadn’t been so busy finishing the revisions…
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Pronouncing the Griffin
I’ve noticed on my blog stats that people have a few concerns about pronouncing Italian words from SAVING THE GRIFFIN. Here’s a quick guide. If you’re familiar with Spanish, it should be extremely easy because the vowels are similar. A: ah…
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Hitting the Send Button
Incoming! Thwump! That’s the sound of 51,000 words landing in my editor’s electronic inbox. My YA mystery is done, at least for the moment. It was a pretty major revision, so I’ll have to see what my editor thinks about…
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The Reading Bowl Rap
It was so fun to find SAVING THE GRIFFIN in the first verse of the Georgia Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl 2009-10 Rap. A clever person from the DeKalb County Schools managed to work the titles for of the various books into a…
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Reading Every Word Out Loud
I still don’t know a better way to find mistakes in my writing than reading each word out loud. It keeps my eye from skimming over my all too familiar words. Of course working my way through 51,000 words takes awhile….
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