Indeed!
Librarian in sort-of Chicago. PW book reviewer. #Amquerying #SCBWI writer/poet. Winner: #50PreciousWords, Highlights scholarship, ElegantLit, IAmWritingMG. HM: #PBParty. WTMP mentee, RisingTalent finalist. https://linktr.ee/tracie.renee
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Indeed!
Thank you, Susan!
Thank you for your kind encouragement, James!
Yes! That movie made me cry. So did the Dog Man movie. And the Willy Wonka movie that came out last year too. (I might need to stop watching movies with my kid. Not sure my heart can handle it 🤣)
Wonderful insights. Thank you for sharing this. It's exactly what I needed to hear today, in the last hurrah of what's been a pretty dismal summer for my inbox.
I'm really grateful for your transparency (and that of the blogger) because it's been mostly a pretty brutal and depressing summer for my inbox, and I too have been feeling like a fraud. But you're right: it's really about the craft and the community.
Ha! Similarly, I started a painstakingly detailed outline w/ Save the Cat beats for a YA dystopia in May but got stuck on where to start the story. So last week, my brain was all "Ok, let's just start writing a MG about this completely different thing w/ no outline" & now I'm on chapter 7 🤷♀️
Thank you, Sierra!
Thank you!
Beautiful and bittersweet!
Clever and perfect!
So powerful. So sad. And so true.
I read this post with appreciation and empathy, and am crossing my fingers for you.
Heartbreakingly beautiful 💙
Oof, this is powerful!
Mine was something along the lines of "The baby is crying," referring to my cousin (who is about 17 months younger than me).
Poignant. Thank you for sharing this and congratulations on finding it a publishing home. 💙
A Google rabbit hole got me thinking about how these trees are critically endangered due to habitat loss and deforestation. Thanks for the inspiration and the opportunity to learn something new! salty humid air stagnant in the shade of loulu tree stump
So true and so poignant.
Can't speak for EAP, but I love this.
ball abandoned old dog teaches me to fetch #haiku #HaikuSaturday
Also this!
Well done, Beth! This challenges readers with its unique POV that makes us reconcile the futility of a mob mentality.
Splendid idea! I'm always looking for ways to improve and grow, so this would be amazing.
Very sweet. Congrats!
Thank you, Susan!
Indeed I did!
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Thank YOU for reading it!
🤣 There used to be a passage in my #amquerying #MG #NIV where the protagonist's mom offers to get dessert...and then comes back with fig newtons...and much groaning ensues. I ended up cutting the scene but the feelings in it aren't wrong 😆
I very much appreciate this kind reminder. It honestly does help, knowing that the struggle is part of the art. Thank you!
What lovely news! Congratulations.
I thought it looked familiar! I just couldn't quite place it :)
P.S. What delightful book is this from? I don't recognize it, but it is charming!
Oh, that is exactly the other problem we've been having here--the insect symphony is very metaphorically beautiful but also really, really loud (and it's not even a news-worthy brood year). I suppose it really isn't summer until you have to shut the windows to hear the person next to you talking.
I love both of these, Susan. Tender metaphors tenderly layered 💙
Thank you, Rebecca!
Thank you, Jane! (Lately, though, I wouldn't mind so much if they sang a bit quieter. Had to close the windows the other day just to hear my kid talk!)
I'm so glad to see this one getting some love here (thank you!) because I really struggled to get it written this week. So much staring at a blank page! So much erasing! So much yearning to throw my laptop out the window! So much wishing I were a cicada instead of a would-be writer.
I just realized that I've only ever eaten figs in (fig) newton form. 😱
"fingerprints of clematis" 👏👏👏
Came here to say exactly this! A wonderful turn of phrase, Rebecca.
Splendid as always, Abbie!
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Wow! Hope Sunday can live up to the precedent that Saturday set.
This is really beautiful, Taylor. 💙
newborn cicadas sing to me the song they sung to my ancestors #haiku #HaikuSaturday
Thank you, Amy!
Thank you for sharing this, Epistemic Lit friends!
Congrats!
Lovely haiku! Congratulations.
Congrats, Claire! This is such fantastic news. And that poem is 🔥! I was randomly thinking about it just a few days ago.
I am so very honored to be on this list, which includes some of the many fantastic @havehashad.com pieces that made me want to be part of HAD in the first place. 💙 Here's to many more.
Hello! I would very much love to be considered for this (and thank you for all that you do to connect readers with the stories they need).
#MG books made me a reader. I hope someday that my #MG will open a door for another kid.
Thank you for sharing my words, @marie-pierre.bsky.social
A very sweet tribute 💙
One of my favorite soundtracks 💙 Your students must have had a lot of fun with that!
This sounds like a great plan. Will the chickadees mind if I join them?
A perfect lesson pearled from a pair of perfectly contrastes images. Well done, again!
Oh, how neat! I love the way Taiko combines music with dance to tell stories--it is the most joyful thing I've ever watched. I'd really love to learn but our temple is just a bit too far away for me to commit to practices at this point in my life. Maybe someday 🤞
#haiku #HaikuSaturday pitter patter rain crescendo boom of thunder in the taiko drum Photo of Midwest Buddhist Temple's MBT Taiko (mbtchicago.org/taiko/)
Beautiful! Hoping someday we can make all these what ifs happen 🤞
Thank you, John!
Thank you, Cindy!
Tentative peace, tenderly drawn. 💙
Clever and arresting!
Clever, as always! I saw a kingfisher today in actual life, so I was extra-pleased to see one pop up in your poem.
Thank you very much, friend!
There are all kinds of battles, and this is one that many parents (and teens) can relate to. I'm glad that you shared it.
In addition to all the compliments that others have already called out here, I'd like to add: I just really love the visual effect of these words on the page.
Thank YOU for reading and commenting, Scott!
It is indeed--I think that's why the story has stuck with me all these years. Much to unpack in it. Thank you for reading my poem.
Thank you!
Love this take!
Vivid! And heart-wrenching.
For #PoemsAbout #Ceasefire, a story that has haunted me for years. Italicized lines are quotes from news articles. www.cnn.com/2017/08/29/u... @alanparry.bsky.social @thebrokenspine.co.uk
Oh, these are delightful and so very pretty. Congratulations!
We can DM now and I sent you the link!
Thank you so much, Susan!
Yes! Literally can't read it without feeling my heart squeeze in the best way.
Thank you! That was a new move for me in haiku.
My favorite mother-daughter poem lately is "The Raincoat" by Ada Limon. poets.org/poem/raincoat I also have a hand-picked collection of poems that I share for National Poetry Month initiatives at the library where I work. If you'd like to explore it, just DM me for the Canva link.
Perfectly limericked! But oh my, that's not a sight I usually see either 😲🤣🤔
Love your creativity! The second one is my favorite. It calls to my mind a study I read that explained that bobcats are now migrating north to escape human activity.
Just my opinion but: I'd love that.
Thank you, Rebecca!
A lovely and profound reminder of impermanence. 💙
Thanks 😊
Beautiful and bittersweet!
Thank you! Haven't tried it out much. Glad to know the question works here!
I do love a good pun!
I'm not familiar with option A but there's always going to be a soft spot in my heart for Billy Bragg's New England 💙
Word. The wildfire smoke is a doozy, and I'm all the way in the Midwest. Can't imagine what it's like for my allergy/asthma friends who live closer to the sources.
Nice 😆
Beautiful!
Very nice! Does sneezing count as stopping? 👀
Beautiful!
Thank you, Teresa!
Thank you, Abbie!