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• National Parks Birthday – 100 This Month! (Blue Ridge Parkway – US National Parkway)
  on Aug 3, 2016 in writing
  Here is Stu Patterfoot along the Blue Ridge Parkway, a National Parkway maintained by the US Parks Service. The road passes through several states. These were taken in North Carolina. When I was a child, my father drove us home for a bit on this road...
• National Parks Birthday – 100 This Month! (Rocky Mountains National Park)
  on Aug 1, 2016 in National Parks Nature Setting US National Parks 100th Birthday writing fantasy Rocky Mountains National Park Settings
  In celebration of our National Parks Birthday later this month, here is Stu Patterfoot in Rocky Mountains National Park in Colorado. The park is enormous, and two photos can hardly capture the millions of places to stop for photogenic moments. Rocky...
• Humor Writing, and a Challenge
  on Jul 18, 2016 in humor writing Writing Challenge
  Yesterday I attended a workshop on humor writing. I learned new things, practiced new things, came away with new things. It was all good, because, y’know: new things. I’ve taught humor writing workshops to middle grade and high school k...
• Summer Solstice – Merging of Opposite Characters
  on Jun 21, 2016 in Characterization writing communication Summer Solstice
  I love the Summer Solstice. Full moon. Longest day(light) of the year. It makes me feel happy and dance-y. I also feel the opposite, for I get sad knowing from this point until late December, the day(light) will become less and less. I love the lig...
• Competent Businesswoman v.s.Fool
  on May 24, 2016 in Publication writing Writing Business
  There are many times in this writing and publishing business I feel like a competent businesswoman. After all, I write and publish, started my own company, created my own social media platform, and do my own taxes – none of which I ever dreame...
• National Parks Birthday This Summer – Smoky Mountains Nat’l Park
  on May 17, 2016 in Nature Setting writing Writing Exercise Great Smoky Mountains National Park National Park Settings
  Writing settings. What a glorious way to experience settings, and then be able to write about them, than by visiting our varied US National Parks. Here is Stu the Rabbit in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The scenery is stunning with foggy (and...
• National Parks Birthday This Summer – Badlands, SD
  on May 2, 2016 in Nature Setting USA National Parks writing
  The USA National Parks are great places to experience setting (for others besides just writers). Here is Stu the Rabbit in Badlands National Park in Western South Dakota. Hiking the landscape is like walking on a solid rainbow – so many layers...
• National Parks Birthday This Summer – Sleeping Bear Dunes
  on Apr 27, 2016 in writing
  100 years ago this August, Teddy Roosevelt starting designating places as National Parks. Here is Stu the Rabbit at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in northern Michigan. The land is mostly sandy, covered in woods. Some of the dunes going do...
• Encouring Writers of All Ages
  on Apr 16, 2016 in writing
  Today I attended the KDL Grand Rapids Writers Conference, 90 minute’s drive north. I’ve attended this conference twice before, once as a speaker. Not quite sure why I was going since it’s usually for unpublished or one-book-publish...
• Never. Stop. Learning.
  on Apr 12, 2016 in writing
  I’m paying someone in NY to critique/edit one of my stories. Nancy is worth every single penny! She edited one of my other stories a couple years ago. She knows lots about horses and Medieval attire and vocabulary than I do. I appreciate that.

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