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Reading at the Elementary School and The Trailer
My daughter’s 4th grade class is reading my book, Jake Bowers vs The Firebird every day at lunch. Today, her teachers invited me to come and read the chapter. It was adorable! Those kids were great. No guile! One said to me, “Are you working on the next one?” “Yes, I am,” I said. “Well,…
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Spring is …
I’m trying to write and create a little more everyday, (even if it’s just a sentence or two). So I was thinking about the beauty of the Spring and how overjoyed I feel when it’s a morning like today and I created this Facebook banner – Nothing beats a good stretch in the morning! So,…
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Heavy and Light
Heavy and Light Laryssa Waldron 4/17/15 I wake the household comes to order backpacks lunches drop-off kisses I work like a machine, the chaos is displaced dishes laundry endless errands I write she whines ‘till she’s on my lap scribbling grabbing slamming the keyboard she sleeps I drown in others’ creations YouTube Pinterest Facebook catch-up…
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Levels of Edits
Though there may be more levels of edits (depending on the type of work that you are creating) I am going to focus on 4 levels for these articles. As a minimum, your writing should go through the following: Big Picture Edit: developmental, structural, or substantive editing Paragraph Level Edit: stylistic or line editing Sentence-Level…
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Editing: Polishing the Diamond in the Rough
Last Thursday, it was my privilege to address the Utah Valley Writers on editing. The title of my presentation was Editing: Polishing the Diamond in the Rough. (Just a side note, if you would like me to address your school, class, writing group, or conference, please don’t hesitate to contact me). I promised the attendees (and…
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Presentation on Editing – 3/12/15
I will be doing a presentation on editing for Utah Valley Writers this Thursday, March 12, 2015 at 7:00 pm (there will be a critique of writing just before that at 6pm). The meeting will be at the Orem Public Library (58 North State Street // Phone: 801.229.70500) in the Media Room (downstairs). I was…
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Book signing for “I Can Do Hard Things With God”
I will be attending a book signing for “I Can Do Hard Things With God: Essays of Strength from Mormon Women” tomorrow at the Fort Union Deseret Book from 1-3 pm. If you can be there at that time, I’d love to meet and talk with you and answer any questions that you may have. I’m…
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Book Release – Quote from Hard Things
I am honored that Covenant Communications chose a quote from my chapter to display. This has been quite a journey and my husband and I are so thankful for the show of support from those who have already read. He chose to let me write about our struggles, thus branding himself with the disease that…
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Release of the Book – I Can Do Hard Things with God
I’ve been working on a book with a dear friend for a few years now. It’s called, “I Can Do Hard Things with God” and it is a compilation of essays from Mormon Women that discusses all sorts of personal issues and struggles – it begins with suicide and then covers chronic illness, problems with…
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Novels – Helping with International Connections
Today my family and I were eating lunch at a restaurant. Seated next to us (in very close proximity) was a table full of Japanese people who were all speaking in their native tongue. I asked my nine-year-old to scoot over next to them to make more room for her Dad. She looked at me…
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