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Lessons from a Master:

10/20/2014

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      This little drawing sums up just how I felt after attending a writing workshop with the fab Dandi Daley Mackall.
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         ( I was scribbling down notes as fast as I could
trying to scoop up some of her wisdom.)

 
      "Every book you write
    is your best teaching/learning
      experience."
                         -Dandi Daley Mackall


    She encouraged us to
  • keep a daily journal
  • list our activities using nouns/verbs
  • pay attention to smells & sounds
  • identify "frozen moments"from our past

Oh...and did I fail to mention
...each of us received a written manuscript critique!!!

  It was an all day workshop-
  the first session was all about picture books,
 the second concerned writing novels.

Although I can't see myself writing a novel

I decided to stay.

   I was so glad I did!
We got to see a preview of her book-turned -film My Boyfriends's Dogs.

And, even though it was geared to MG and YA - I found some material could still be applied to #PBs.
A big thanks to Dandi & Northern Ohio SCBWI.


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Dandi generously giving of her time.
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Just a few of Dandi's marvelous books.
#picturebooks, #SCBWI, #DandiDaleyMackall, #MYBoyfriendsDogs, #manuscriptcritique
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