Michelle Dearmin Preston

Writing Magic

All books are magic. My adventures in writing children’s fantasy, living life and devouring books.

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NaNoWriMo: What I learned

It’s a bit early for New Year’s resolutions, but I have resolved to update this blog more often. Of course, the bar is really low here since I have only been updating it once a month—so if I manage one more post a month, I’ve doubled my output. However, the goal is to update…

December 15, 2009
NaNoWriMo

I looked at my blog and realized I haven’t posted in a month. October was a crazy month full of sickness and school meetings. November promises to be even crazier as I have signed up for NaNoWriMo–which for the nitiated stands for National Novel Writing Month. Yes, I have signed up to write a 50,000 word…

November 3, 2009
That Fall Feeling

I love the autumn. I guess that’s pretty obvious from the picture on my blog page. When I was growing up, there wasn’t much of a fall season. It seemed to go from summer to winter in about a week. By Halloween we were trudging through snow in our heavy coats, flashing our costumes at the…

October 1, 2009
Fighting the Homework War

My kids are all back in school which means they are bringing home homework—every day. I heard yesterday that the reason for this is that the superintendent of our school district decided that all the children in the district, regardless of grade, should have homework ever day. The rationale is that it’s to prevent students…

September 22, 2009
Lost in Cyberspace

I spent most of yesterday writing a blog entry about, well, writing. I worked very hard on it, and I thought I saved it, but when I opened the file this afternoon to finish the entry, it was gone. Welcome to my nightmare. I love the computer. I can edit. I can revise. I…

September 15, 2009
This blog is under construction…

I click a few buttons, choose a theme, and presto…I have a blog. And there it is…my blog…just waiting for me to share all of my thoughts. I have been staring at it all week—the blankest of all blank pages—waiting for those magically important thoughts to come to me. And I’m still waiting. Of…

August 27, 2009
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August 25, 2009