Shortest. Blog. EVER. It’s almost midnight PST and I just got home after having dinner with our NaPiBoWriWee Guest Author/Artist Erin Eitter Kono (her blog here: https://paulayoo.com/napi/?p=55). My main thought is – during NaPiBoWriWee or any time you are busy in your writing batcave, it helps to have a writing buddy! Someone you can pitch ideas to or ask to read/critique your work, and vice versa. A writing buddy is a great safety net and lifeline, especially when you are feeling frustrated with your writing and/or suffering from writer’s block or… Read more NaPiBoWriWee 2011 Day Five – Bedtime Blog! →
Welcome HOPE VESTERGAARD, our guest author for 2011 NaPiBoWriWee Day Five! Hope Vestergaard is an early childhood consultant and children’s author with seventeen years’ experience working with children, teachers, and families. She earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Smith College and is a member of the National Association for the Education of Young Children and the International Reading Association. Hope currently trains teachers, conducts parent workshops, (works with classrooms in transition,) and develops curricular materials for parents and teachers. Her particular areas of interest include literacy, developmentally appropriate practice, and… Read more NaPiBoWriWee Day Five: Guest Author Blog – Hope Vestergaard →
Good morning NaPiBoWriWee peeps! What? We’re already at Day 5? We’re more than halfway through National Picture Book Writing Week? Pinch me! Time is going by so quickly! Is everyone surviving? Are people indulging in too much caffeine and sugar? Are you snapping at your loved ones because you’re cranky and tired from all this writing? LOL! 🙂 Hang in there! Imagine how PROUD and HAPPY you will feel once you write Picture Book No. 5 today! (Or play catch-up on Books 1-4 if you’ve fallen behind due to work… Read more NaPiBoWriWee 2011 Day Five – Good Morning! →