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  • Three Feet of Trouble: Part Two

    “I wasn’t trying to offend you, honest! My apologies.” His boot made contact with Isabelle’s ankle this morning. “Ow!” His face turned white, then purple, then red.

  • From My Bookshelves: Maud (written by Melanie J. Fishbane)

    while much of it is indeed based off of Montgomery's life, it also contains quite a bit of fictional content She writes home to Cavendish, asking Grandma Macneill for permission to return home. Following her successes and failures as she begins submitting her writing to different publications particularly I really enjoyed reading about Maud's successes in her writing, as (obviously) I too love to write. I tend to enjoy books featuring girls who write just like me.

  • 3 Great Christian Children's Magazines That Accept Unsolicited Submissions

    I really enjoy it when I find an awesome opportunity to submit my writing somewhere, whether it be to a contest or to a more permanent opportunity like a magazine. Their rates at the time I am writing this are as follows. Nature Friend accepts unsolicited submissions year-round, but they ask that you send seasonal writings I plan to put together some other writing opportunities in the future, so keep your eye out for those

  • Learning Poetry: The Triolet

    Copy the rhyme scheme for a triolet into your poetry notebook, and pick one of the prompts below: Write Write a triolet about your favourite hobby, about why you love it, or why you think other people should

  • Learning Poetry: The Pantoum

    Not everything you write has to be good. I rarely throw out a piece of writing. It is an easy-to-read book on the writing craft, good for the beginning writer. Write a six verse pantoum about the holiday that is closest right now. Write a pantoum using at least one homophone. Choose your own subject. Write a pantoum with a joke or riddle worked into it. Good luck!

  • Guest Post: My Prisoner, The Bug (a poem written by Rue Arrow)

    As a young writer, I receive emails from multiple other writers around my age. One of the young writers that I follow is Rue Arrow. She writes some pretty cool stuff. Her formal blog,  This Messy Thing Called Life,  is full of deep, thoughtful, soul-stirring writings

  • It's a Gift, I Think (short poem)

    Recently, I was looking back at the titles to several pieces that I wrote in 2024, hoping to find something of the feelings that writers may experience. The feeling that what you're writing is stupid and that no one will ever want to read it. The confusion over why we're so drawn to writing (I'm not the only one who marvels at that, am I?). I say, "I can't write anything worth reading today."

  • The Sun Is Shining At Canada Lily (Sunshine Blogger Award)

    She writes romances set in medieval times. I don't always love what I write, so I write something else until I write something I love, and then From writing prompts? From your pet three-legged cicada? Is it the same as the genre you write the most? Why and when did you start writing? Keep writing for His Glory, girls!

  • I Tried Something New: BtB Music Playlist

    I don't know how widespread of a thing this is, but in the writing circles I run in, it seems that a writing project. They compile songs that fit the theme of their novel and listen to them as they write. Fine. Honestly, I don't typically play music with words in the background while I am writing. I'm Still Writing A Novel ( BtB update) "There is one way."

  • Contemplating Flanders: A Poem of Remembrance

    document , along with all the rest of the winning entries from last year's National Youth Remembrance Contests I've done something a bit similar below because I thought the concept was really neat. John McCrae would be proud of what his poem, In Flanders Fields , has inspired other Canadians to write

  • CHRISTMAS Acrostics

    My siblings and I wrote our first CHRISTMAS acrostics two or three years ago. included a quick bit of a tutorial to get you started, as well as an example CHRISTMAS acrostic that I wrote Set up your sheet like this: C H R I S T M A S Make sure to leave lots of room for writing. If you're looking for more fun writing activities to do as a family in any season, try writing a few

  • Dear Kasey

    Dear Kasey is a revised version of a flash fiction piece that I wrote back in summer of 2024. beginning to what is called an epistolary novel (or short story, or novella...), which is a form of writing I'm an avid letter writer myself, so this kind of novel would make a lot of sense for me to write! Write me back soon, Davey

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