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Archive for January 2008

January 31st, 2008

Meg Cabot’s Ten Journal Writing Tips

After writing about Meg Cabot the other day I came across Ten Journal Writing Tips by the author. This is in PDF format, so make sure you have adobe.com already on your computer before you download this file.
Heather
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January 31st, 2008

Tagged, Again!

Joshua from Junk Creation has really put me in it. He decided to tag me with the Seven Oddball things about me meme. I’ll have to dig a bit deeper to come up with seven new things. But I suppose it helps that I’m a bit odd, anyway.
1. My three children are brunette, redhead, & […]

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January 30th, 2008

Ways to Simplify

I read an interesting news article on Yahoo on Tips For Simplifying Your Life, which inspired a need to write my own list. What about you? List six ways you could simplify your life right now. Perhaps create your list and then read the article. That way you won’t be influenced by the tips already […]

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January 29th, 2008

Keeping a Script Writer’s Journal

While reading The West Australian on the weekend I came across an interesting call for script writers from His Majesty’s Theatre. The call is for West Australian script writers to create a monologue for the competition. The winner could bag $3000, which is Aussie dollars in case you didn’t realise.
The call for entries got […]

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January 28th, 2008

Nature Journals for Kids

Today I read an article encouraging parents & teachers to help kids keep a nature journal. There are some excellent ideas in the article, with drawing and observation the most important. I liked the idea of keeping a photographic record of their observations. Kids are keen to use technology. You may as well go with […]

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January 27th, 2008

Diary of a Wimpy Kid

I was pleased to read how author Jeff Kinney used life experience, and his own journal writing, as inspiration for the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. Kinney began with just Diary of a Wimpy Kid, but Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules is set to release February 1 this year. It looks like […]

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January 26th, 2008

Meg Cabot Encourages Teens to Write Journals

I am really excited to read about Meg Cabot’s initiative with YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Association), encouraging teens to keep journals. Meg Cabot, the author of The Princess Diaries series, among other books, has helped create a programme which includes making journals, bookmarks with tips on how to journal, and how to address privacy […]

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January 26th, 2008

Australia Day

Here in Australia we celebrated Australia Day today. There is usually a public holiday for the event with lots of barbeques, celebrations of every kind and fireworks. This year the public holiday will be on Monday. Tonight my daughter and I headed down to North Beach and watched both the fireworks in Fremantle and then […]

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January 25th, 2008

Freaky Friday #95

Today is Friday and that means it’s Freaky Friday. If you need to know more about this journal writing challenge please read the First Freaky Friday entry.
I’ve recently finished reading the excellent book Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen. In the novel the main character relates the story of how he joined the circus […]

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January 25th, 2008

I’m a Blog Star

I was thrilled to read on Shai Coggin’s blog that I am a Blog Star. Well, according to Shai, that is. Still, her award made my day. Just thought I’d share the news with all of my regular readers.
Heather
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