I have been submitting to contests and magazines lately. I’ve typed so much that my wrists have been sore three days running. This is a familiar pain to me. I logged many hours entering data as a teacher-librarian at my first public school. There was little budget for automation so I and a few parent […]
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This is the annual home of CANSCAIP’s Packaging Your Imagination.
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Sharon Jennings: Reluctant to Start Writing? Have I Got a Reader For You!Sharon’s class was so popular that she had to present in the chapel at Victoria College. She explained that the typical reluctant reader is a grade six boy reading at a grade 2.5 level. To grab this group she emphasized: exciting plot accessible
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Bought at Packaging Your Imagination The Alchemist’s Portrait by Simon Rose The Mysterious Mummer by L.M. Falcone Good Times Travel Agency: Adventures in Ancient China by Linda Bailey, illustrated by Bill Slavin. I wanted to buy one of Sharon Jenning’s Bats books for reluctant readers but I only saw her books for younger readers. Workshops
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Today I attended CANSAIP’s annual conference called Packaging Your Imagination. Held at Trinity college, Toronto, the day-long conference consisted of three workshops and a keynote speaker. Between the second and third workshops, there was a sit down lunch with brief speeches from the CANSCAIP organizers. I will talk about the workshops another time. I’m still
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I finished reading Jasper Fforde’s The Eyre Affair. It’s a Brontë lover’s romp, written for our times. A demonic villain, Acheron Hades, is invading fictional classics via the original manuscripts and changing the stories. Reader’s who own a copy of these books watch, dismayed, as he kidnaps characters or otherwise rewrites the stories. Comic Fantasy
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