You know, Spring with sunshine. Not just Spring on the calendar.
1. I don’t like socks. Or shoes.
2. I’m feeling cold all the time, which makes me feel old. And rhymes.
3. Grey is a nice-enough color for a while, but I’m ready for some blue. As in skies.
4. I’m craving a few moments sitting on a sun-warmed rock, with my eyes closed against the glare.
5. I’m getting bored with my fingerless gloves. Yes, even my aqua-and-black striped-and-checked ones.
I’m ready for a little of this:
Becky Levine is a children's book writer, working hard to strengthen her picture-books skills. She is the author of The Writing & Critique Group Survival Guide, a book to help you get started with a critique group, learn to revise from a critique, and strengthen your own critiquing powers. She has also published two nonfiction children's books with Capstone Press. She is currently seeking representation.
Becky lives in California's Santa Cruz mountains, where she spends a lot of time sitting on the couch, knitting needles in hand, thinking through the next revision. At her day job, she writes grants for a nonprofit healthcare organization.
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I’m with you, Becky, but will we we able to write as well without those fingerless gloves? I do want to hear the garden calling, but getting words down here on the windowseat, in my layers.
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I think my hands are ready to be free for a few months. I’ll clean up the gloves, wrap them in scented tissue (Ha!) and use them to welcome in autumn when it’s due. 🙂
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Wow! I have never written with fingerless gloves. I wonder if it would improve my plot, characterization or dialogue.
Spring really does feel awesome. Enjoy!
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I think the gloves add a certain coolness to the writing process–not temperature, but attitude!
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I have so much to learn about being a cool writer.
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You’re assuming I know what I’m talking about in that area! 🙂
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I, too, like the fingerless glove idea. Very Dickensian.
I like this Friday Five idea, too. Think I’ll steal. (which is very Dickensian as well) 😉
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Steal away. 🙂 Just don’t take it all back to Fagin!
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