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writing prompts - march madness
03/02/15 Can you feel it? The madness? No, not the spherical hyped up college hooping betting Las Vegas style kind of madness. I'm talking the coming out of hibernation, the winter-into-spring kind. I realize some of you live in colder regions, areas covered in snow, locales near frozen ponds or snowcapped hills. Not me. I'm a California girl, and our winter is coming to a close. Well, the very limited winter that visited, that is. Spring is on its way. So let's celebrate! What better way to honor the shift from cold to cool, from frozen to chilly, or from darkness to light than with some writing? We recently spent the month examining setting. Hopefully, you've enjoyed the posts and have even been practicing perfecting your story's time and place. Of course you have! So now, show it off... read the rest here
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Author, reader, poet, teacher, mom. Take time to peruse this site and get to know her YA books (THIS GIRL CLIMBS TREES and BIRDS ON A WIRE), thoughts on writing, and advice to young writers. Watch This Girl's book trailer here. Connect with Ellen here or online. Even more here. (Soon, you'll know more about me than my mom.) Check out the latest issue of The Writing Disorder, and read an excerpt from Ellen's next YA.
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