Scribbler's Retreat: Becoming Publishable
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Limited Time to Write?

Raising Writers

Writing an online column

If you were a writer

If You Were a Writer by Joan Lowery Nixon , Bruce Degen (Illustrator)

Are your children confused about what you do? This picture book follows a little girl trying to comprehend her mother's writing career, and eventually writing her own stories.

 

 

Life Beyond the Keyboard

 

Few of us spend our entire lives at our computers writing and editing. We have families, jobs, volunteer work, hobbies, and other priorities that demand our time. This chapter will explore how to juggle a writing career with other demands, how to use our writing to help the other parts of our lives, how to pass along our legacy to our children, and other aspects of life beyond the keyboard.

 

Getting the most from a limited writing schedule

Teaching our children to love writing

Writing our family history: Use your writing skills to turn your immediate family's life into a story to be shared through the generations. It's likely nothing you will write is more certain to become your legacy and give you immortality.

Mentoring new writers: Others helped you and now it's your turn to help another writer.

Personal Journaling: In addition to a writer's journal, you need to save your own experiences and emotions for future writing.

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My cat on the bookcase resting

This is my bibliocat, Katie. She is more often found on my keyboard, trying to keep me from working.