Flake-out Friday–BLOGIVERSARY!!!!

Wow. I’ve been blogging for ONE YEAR! My, my, how time flies!!! (Thank you, internet search for “blogiversary” for such great pics!) To celebrate, I’m having a super-fun, hopefully interactive, giveaway. You see, I found this super cute ornament at the Yankee Candle Flagship Store in Deerfield, MA a couple weeks ago and automatically thought [...]

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Sisterhood of the Traveling Blog AND Who’s Doing NaNoWriMo???

So, writerly peeps, who’s gonna do NaNoWriMo? Show of hands please. I signed up and “won” last year by completing over 50,000 words of a manuscript within the month of November. What an exciting–and exhausting–endeavor. This year? My goal is to PACE myself and take time with refining my craft. If that means spending six [...]

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Mental Health Monday–ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)

The teacher calls your name. You blink, vaguely aware twenty pairs of eyes are on you. Your fuzzy mind snaps back into focus. Sure enough, you’ve been called on. But you have absolutely NO idea what the topic is. Your teacher’s eyebrow arches so much you think it’ll break in half. *sigh* You’ve been caught [...]

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Blog Chain–Out to Lunch

  Thoughtful and poignant Michelle H starts this round of the blog chain with this question: If you could dine with any author, and I do mean any whether alive or dead (yes, we’re going into the realms of time travel – but hey, we have science fiction writers on this chain so we can [...]

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Flake-out Friday–Grover Does Old Spice AND A Blog Award

I have to thank Natalie Fischer (literary agent for Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency , blog host of Adventures in Agentland, and of WriteOnCon live chat fame) for posting this link on Twitter a couple weeks ago. SO funny. Enjoy! Grover Old Spice Remix:   Switching gears… Amparo Ortiz, blogger & writer extraordinare, has gave me the [...]

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Sisterhood of the Traveling Blog AND Writerly iPad apps

I got an iPad for my birthday–sa-weet!!!! Anywho, I’ve been fiddling around with how to use it for my writing endeavors. I am, as always, open to suggestions, so feel free to comment with any and all info you have about apps. In an effort to stimulate the convo, I’ve linked to a SUPER blog [...]

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Mental Health Monday–Impulse Control AND Contest Winner for Emotional Intensity in Gifted Students

Drum roll please! The contest winner (generated by random.org) for Emotional Intensity in Gifted Students by Christine Fonseca is: BENOIT! Please send your address to my e-mail (laurabdiamond@yahoo.com). I’ll forward it to Christine and she’ll send you signed copy of Emotional Intensity in Gifted Students! CONGRATULATIONS!!!! ********** The DSM-IV-TR (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental [...]

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Flake-out Friday–It’s My Birthday and I’ll Laugh If I Want To

Hey all! I’m away at a conference in Boston, but I couldn’t leave y’all without a flake-out. Especially since today is my birthday! Listen, if I’m doin’ some learnin’ on me berfday, so are you! Eddie Izzard on Learning French (funny fella, drops a lot of f-bombs–you’ve been warned) (with subtitles) I’m so glad I [...]

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Sisterhood of the Traveling Blog AND Attack of the Internal Editor

It’s Lydia’s turn to discuss the importance of stories! Click here for her post.   I can say with relative confidence that my writing skills have steadily improved over the past two years. I can also safely say that I’m a fast-paced, sometimes sloppy panster at heart. Seriously. Every time I try to outline, I veer [...]

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Mental Health Monday–Cognitive Dissonance

You know that feeling you get when you realize you’ve made a mistake? Come on, admit it. It’s that sinking or twisting feeling in your gut. Or the tightness in your chest. Don’t forget the throbbing or stabbing headache that brings you to your knees. I’m gonna go out on a limb here and assume [...]

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