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I need suggestions for best proofreading/editing program. I’m preparing my YA Fantasy to send to publishers. Thanks.

Finished YA Fantasy…Book 1, 118,689 words…

Best views in Meat Cove Cape Breton Island

Carley Simon coming to NS

Getting near the end YA Fantasy.

First draft…milestone!

I get it! Nonstop nonsense that we feel compelled to do because …. We can’t stand clutter… we were told crumbs attract rats, we are sensitive to the stench of rotting things like oranges( just found one in my cold porch!) and fill in the blank…

Is this still happening?

Many students in the fifties and sixties suffered because of this misguided belief!

Blessings ❤️

Red finger Patio Lime Tree

This type of plant piques my interest! Always looking for the strange!

TEACHERS & SCHOOL LIBRARIANS! Tomorrow is 2/14 ❤️Day! Time for annual #AuthorsLoveTeachers Giveaway! One of you will win an *enormous pile of signed books from dozens of different authors to share with your students. Because we see you and appreciate everything you do for kids. ❤️ See post tomorrow.

I’m drawn to YA genre at present.. as my WIP is a YA fantasy. I write fantasy as I’m drawn to it like a moth to light… fascinates me, fires my imagination… perhaps because I was a grade 8 English teacher?

Rough excerpt

…the reason her aunt has really hidden her from the Empress ( rough draft) I’ll go back adding more sensory detail…

Wishing I could just wave my hand down my body, like my protagonist and snap all showered! Woke up with a full plot for ‘the quest’… want to get writing!

Lovely!

For me … the witching hour is when I either solve something I was trying to for my WIP or a terrific new twist comes to me… that’s the gift…

The Witching hour is when my muse talks to me.

Writing is my passion…

The term "Luddite" as a pejorative synonym for "technophobe" was a technocrat PR coup; that's not what Luddites were about. They were a labour movement fighting to give workers control over technologies which were advancing w/o oversight and rapidly automating them out of their jobs. Sound familiar?

The GNSS acronym … not the water levels! Just to clarify!

Honestly I don’t have a clue what that means but it sounds interesting!

Innovators!

Don’t rule women out as inventive innovators!

"WHEN YOU ARE OLD" - by William Butler Yeats

When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;

In your dreams Mango

Three day storm prediction here… I have 3 books at the ready!

If you could share my Kickstarter for my 3rd picture book, Hilda & Richie's Sandwich, I'd appreciate it!

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Festival of fire…are you making a bonfire tonight?

First day of spring in Gaelic calendar!

Looks like a great read!

Good advice, thank you! I’ll use that tip!