Clare McCarron
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@BathSpaUni #mawfyp WIP YA In a haze of angst and anger, a city teen collides with the wild Scottish Highlands. LL Guppy 2024, CNPKids Top 100
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Clare McCarron
@claremccarron.bsky.social
· Nov 20
a white cat is sitting on a tiled floor and looking at the camera with the words yall nasty above it .
ALT: a white cat is sitting on a tiled floor and looking at the camera with the words yall nasty above it .
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Just managed to get 'dry boakes' into my WIP. Very chuffed with myself. It is a seriously under appreciated phrase. Visual aid below.
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Here we go with our ✂️✂️✂️ #cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets 20 today and then 10 Tomorrow! This is a closely run race and we’re still juggling! This is not our longlist but our long, long list ! Longlist announced 28th February 2025 at 2pm!
February 25, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Here we go with our ✂️✂️✂️ #cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets 20 today and then 10 Tomorrow! This is a closely run race and we’re still juggling! This is not our longlist but our long, long list ! Longlist announced 28th February 2025 at 2pm!
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#Cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets ✂️✂️✂️ see you tomorrow at 2pm with 20 more!
February 24, 2025 at 2:20 PM
#Cheshirenovelprizekidssnippets ✂️✂️✂️ see you tomorrow at 2pm with 20 more!
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Characters' listening can range from "actual words, to body language, to the effect of differing listening skills on a relationship"
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#Writers #Authors #WritingCommunity #Writing #KathySWriter
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Crafting Characters Using the 7 Types of Listening
Did you know there are SEVEN levels of listening? The impact of this knowledge in your stories and in your own life are extraordinary. Check it out!
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February 21, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Characters' listening can range from "actual words, to body language, to the effect of differing listening skills on a relationship"
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#Writers #Authors #WritingCommunity #Writing #KathySWriter
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In a world of overwhelming choice, I love the whittled-down book selection at my local street library | Jane Howard
In a world of overwhelming choice, I love the whittled-down book selection at my local street library | Jane Howard
There may be a book I want to read, there may not. But making the choice feels so much easier than keeping up with new releases
I am a voracious reader, but it is easy to feel there are too many books in the world. How do you find the time to keep up…
www.theguardian.com
February 10, 2025 at 10:48 PM
In a world of overwhelming choice, I love the whittled-down book selection at my local street library | Jane Howard
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Who else is coming to this? I'll be there 11 - 3 with my books which you can buy from my fair hand, signed and dedicated.
January 31, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Who else is coming to this? I'll be there 11 - 3 with my books which you can buy from my fair hand, signed and dedicated.
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"Shared reading is a public health intervention that should be available to all children."
We loved hosting the #ReadingRights summit with Waterstones #ChildrensLaureate @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social this month.
Here's what happened - and what's next 👇
www.booktrust.org.uk/news-and-fea...
We loved hosting the #ReadingRights summit with Waterstones #ChildrensLaureate @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social this month.
Here's what happened - and what's next 👇
www.booktrust.org.uk/news-and-fea...
Reading Rights Summit: ‘Shared reading is a public health intervention that should be available to all children’
Find out what happened when BookTrust and Waterstones Children's Laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce hosted the Reading Rights summit in Liverpool, as part of a campaign to address the 'invisible privilege ...
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January 31, 2025 at 12:21 PM
"Shared reading is a public health intervention that should be available to all children."
We loved hosting the #ReadingRights summit with Waterstones #ChildrensLaureate @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social this month.
Here's what happened - and what's next 👇
www.booktrust.org.uk/news-and-fea...
We loved hosting the #ReadingRights summit with Waterstones #ChildrensLaureate @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social this month.
Here's what happened - and what's next 👇
www.booktrust.org.uk/news-and-fea...
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"This isn't something that's just nice or lovely. It's something fundamental to becoming a human being."
Waterstones #ChildrensLaureate @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social shares why reading is a right for every child. #ReadingRights
Waterstones #ChildrensLaureate @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social shares why reading is a right for every child. #ReadingRights
January 22, 2025 at 4:31 PM
"This isn't something that's just nice or lovely. It's something fundamental to becoming a human being."
Waterstones #ChildrensLaureate @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social shares why reading is a right for every child. #ReadingRights
Waterstones #ChildrensLaureate @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social shares why reading is a right for every child. #ReadingRights
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If she can do it, we can all do it.
January 22, 2025 at 10:43 AM
If she can do it, we can all do it.
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This is the face of courage and compassion. Thank you Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde for speaking truth to power on behalf of the marginalized.
January 22, 2025 at 3:11 PM
This is the face of courage and compassion. Thank you Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde for speaking truth to power on behalf of the marginalized.
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Nervous/excited! Please join us for my inaugural professorial lecture: 19 March at The Egg Theatre Bath. All welcome!
@bathspauni.bsky.social
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/bath/the-egg/everyone-is-an-artist-the-importance-of-imagination-creativity-and-the-arts-professor-penny-hay/e-yejyje
@bathspauni.bsky.social
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/bath/the-egg/everyone-is-an-artist-the-importance-of-imagination-creativity-and-the-arts-professor-penny-hay/e-yejyje
Everyone is an Artist: The Importance of Imagination, Creativity, and the Arts - Professor Penny Hay at The Egg
Tickets are now available for Everyone is an Artist: The Importance of Imagination, Creativity, and the Arts - Professor Penny Hay at The Egg, Bath on Wed 19 Mar 2025 at 6:00PM. Click the link for further information and to secure your tickets now!
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January 16, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Nervous/excited! Please join us for my inaugural professorial lecture: 19 March at The Egg Theatre Bath. All welcome!
@bathspauni.bsky.social
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/bath/the-egg/everyone-is-an-artist-the-importance-of-imagination-creativity-and-the-arts-professor-penny-hay/e-yejyje
@bathspauni.bsky.social
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/bath/the-egg/everyone-is-an-artist-the-importance-of-imagination-creativity-and-the-arts-professor-penny-hay/e-yejyje
January 17, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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"Here are eight new literary agents actively seeking clients. New agents are a boon to writers. They are actively building their lists, and will go the extra mile for their clients."
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8 New Agents Seeking Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Thrillers, Literary Fiction, YA, Memoir, Nonfiction and more
Here are eight new literary agents actively seeking clients. New agents are a boon to writers. They are actively building their lists, and w...
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January 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
"Here are eight new literary agents actively seeking clients. New agents are a boon to writers. They are actively building their lists, and will go the extra mile for their clients."
publishedtodeath.blogspot.com/2025/01/8-ne...
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WIP mood board.
January 17, 2025 at 12:14 PM
WIP mood board.
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"Before giving up on a project, why not try to resurrect it? Some stories may not be salvageable, but many can be rescued with a little innovative thinking and a few fresh fiction writing ideas."
www.writingforward.com/storytelling...
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23 Fiction Writing Ideas That Will Revitalize Your Story | Writing Forward
When your story isn't working, you can give up or you can try to revitalize it. Use a few of these fiction writing ideas to breathe new life into your fiction.
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January 16, 2025 at 3:23 PM
"Before giving up on a project, why not try to resurrect it? Some stories may not be salvageable, but many can be rescued with a little innovative thinking and a few fresh fiction writing ideas."
www.writingforward.com/storytelling...
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Began reading the sequel back in Nov. Have not been able to finish due to discomfiting prescience.
Cannot stop thinking about how Octavia Butler wrote a book in 1993 about climate change. It opens with deadly fires in LA in 2025. In the story, a fascist President has just won office with the campaign slogan "Make America Great Again."
She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.
She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.
January 9, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Began reading the sequel back in Nov. Have not been able to finish due to discomfiting prescience.
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"… writing dark fantasy is not for the faint-hearted. It’s about taking the cozy, light-dappled world of your imagination and dragging it through the underworld, kicking and screaming."
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Crafting Otherworldly Realms: How to Blend Mythology, Dark Fantasy, and Psychological Depth in Fiction - BookViral Book Reviews
Discover 'Crafting Otherworldly Realms: How to Blend Mythology, Dark Fantasy, and Psychological Depth in Fiction,' a comprehensive guide for authors. Learn to reimagine myths, build surreal settings, ...
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January 10, 2025 at 4:32 PM
"… writing dark fantasy is not for the faint-hearted. It’s about taking the cozy, light-dappled world of your imagination and dragging it through the underworld, kicking and screaming."
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Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']:
Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.
Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.
January 10, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']:
Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.
Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.
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🔊 Our 7th annual #ReflectingRealities report is out now! This year’s report shows a significant drop in the presence of racially minoritised characters in books published for children in 2023 in the UK.
November 29, 2024 at 8:01 AM
🔊 Our 7th annual #ReflectingRealities report is out now! This year’s report shows a significant drop in the presence of racially minoritised characters in books published for children in 2023 in the UK.
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"The challenge for a novel’s first line is to begin orienting the reader to the story while also raising a question that inspires them to read the next line. … That’s a lot of pressure to put on a sentence."
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6 Dialogue Openings: Stats, Thoughts & Tips
The challenge for a novel’s first line is to begin orienting the reader to the story while also raising a question that inspires them to read the next line. Adding quotation marks around that…
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January 9, 2025 at 4:45 PM
"The challenge for a novel’s first line is to begin orienting the reader to the story while also raising a question that inspires them to read the next line. … That’s a lot of pressure to put on a sentence."
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"... there's nothing inherently wrong with a "weak word," they do tend to hang around trouble areas--just like those red flag words with show, don't tell. They're good places to start when something feels off ..."
blog.janicehardy.com/2013/02/five...
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5 Edits to Strengthen Your Writing, Right Now
Fiction University is a site dedicated to helping writers and authors improve their writing craft and their publishing careers.
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December 15, 2024 at 5:05 PM
"... there's nothing inherently wrong with a "weak word," they do tend to hang around trouble areas--just like those red flag words with show, don't tell. They're good places to start when something feels off ..."
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#Writers #Authors #WritingCommunity #Writing
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I’ve written about so many Christmas books over the years that I somehow forgot I interviewed Emily Sutton about The Christmas Eve Tree. It’s the story of a fir that finds itself unsold at Christmas time and is rescued from a department store’s bin by a homeless boy. tygertale.com/2015/12/05/t...
December 8, 2024 at 5:56 PM
I’ve written about so many Christmas books over the years that I somehow forgot I interviewed Emily Sutton about The Christmas Eve Tree. It’s the story of a fir that finds itself unsold at Christmas time and is rescued from a department store’s bin by a homeless boy. tygertale.com/2015/12/05/t...
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Great reads here!
In our latest What To Read Now blog:
📕 Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Making Enemies by @louiestowell.bsky.social,
📙Twenty-Four Seconds From Now by Jason Reynolds @faberbooks.bsky.social
📘 Vanishing Edge by Zillah Bethell, @fireflypress.bsky.social
https://buff.ly/3VRWFWL
#ReadingForPleasure
📕 Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Making Enemies by @louiestowell.bsky.social,
📙Twenty-Four Seconds From Now by Jason Reynolds @faberbooks.bsky.social
📘 Vanishing Edge by Zillah Bethell, @fireflypress.bsky.social
https://buff.ly/3VRWFWL
#ReadingForPleasure
What To Read Now - Book Clubs in Schools
What To Read is Book Clubs in School's blog about books for children and young people that we've been enjoying.
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December 8, 2024 at 8:32 PM
Great reads here!
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Today Guardian and Observer journalists are on strike over plans to sell the Observer to a loss-making digital start up and put its journalism behind a paywall. 🧵
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Day 1, Non-Fiction: ‘Into the Volcano’ by Catherine Ard & illust. by Wenjia Tang @flyingeyebooks.bsky.social
This book explains the science of volcanoes, but its true beauty lies in its exploration of the myths, stories, & religious importance of these geological wonders.
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This book explains the science of volcanoes, but its true beauty lies in its exploration of the myths, stories, & religious importance of these geological wonders.
#Spark12BooksOfChristmas
December 2, 2024 at 9:32 AM
Day 1, Non-Fiction: ‘Into the Volcano’ by Catherine Ard & illust. by Wenjia Tang @flyingeyebooks.bsky.social
This book explains the science of volcanoes, but its true beauty lies in its exploration of the myths, stories, & religious importance of these geological wonders.
#Spark12BooksOfChristmas
This book explains the science of volcanoes, but its true beauty lies in its exploration of the myths, stories, & religious importance of these geological wonders.
#Spark12BooksOfChristmas