writernatswift.bsky.social
Author of time travel stories BLUE SKIES (in The Accidental Time Travelers Collective Volume 1) and FROM NOW ON (Vol. 3). Working on PBs, MG Sci-fi, and haiku as @haikuformykids.bsky.social (he/him)
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Abby discovers something very odd about a map Rakesh is drawing in chapter 12 of THE FIRST KID ON MARS:
#WIPSnips
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Thanks!
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Yeah, it's cool to think that the story is just sitting there in my brain somewhere and I could pick it back up and see where it goes anytime.
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I wrote the first act of a play in 1998. Every once in a while I think about writing act two.
It was pretty good, but the plot depends on having to wait a few days to get photos developed, so I don't know how to make it work now...
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Thanks! The whole book is filled with them...
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Thanks! The whole book is filled with them...
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“Pooh Bear’s house was the crater at the top of Olympus Mons.”
If that doesn’t make you excited for this story, nothing will
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Thanks! I had a lot of fun writing this scene 😁
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Abby discovers something very odd about a map Rakesh is drawing in chapter 12 of THE FIRST KID ON MARS:
#WIPSnips
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Apparently my marketing plan is working 😁
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I'm a teacher and a dad, so I have mixed feelings.
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I wrote a bit in The First Kid on Mars about how Giovanni Schiaparelli's "canali" were translated as "canals" instead of "channels," which made us all expect to see Martian boats sailing on Martian rivers.
In my story, the kids discover that "canals" wasn't such a bad translation after all...
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My last post there was right after he did the salute, and it went something like this:
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It really is! I feel very lucky that I'm able to do this with both classes.
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(and yes they are loving it and yes it is a lot of fun for me)
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No doubt. Love this song.
Springsteen Heardle #81
🔊🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️
#SpringsteenHeardle #Heardle @RockHeardles springsteen-heardle.glitch.me
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Thank you! It was a great moment to capture.
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Thank you! I loved your "blue on blue on blue"
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bright blue shimmering
bioluminescent bursts
under whooshing waves
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I never saw him live. I'm sure he's amazing.
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If I tried explaining it to my kids now they'd just laugh at me.
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Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band.
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An odd discovery from chapter 15 of THE FIRST KID ON MARS...
#WIPSnips
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An odd discovery from chapter 15 of THE FIRST KID ON MARS...
#WIPSnips
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Very much more ad hoc 😂
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I guess in a way...
I scribble notes on graph paper and keep those pages in folders - one for "characters," one for "story structure," one for "chapter research," etc.
But I don't transfer any of that to my computer, which is where I write.
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I discover character details at first, but once I start to get to know them I'll brainstorm a whole bunch of biography details in case I need them later.
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Thanks!
The tea party was set up outside a toy store in Gloucester, MA. My daughter immediately joined the bears (I'm sure most kids do), and I was lucky to get a great photo.
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I just put a lot of faith in the idea that the story is there to be discovered and all I have to do is trust it.
Sometimes it even works 😁