Category Archives: Two-Step Scribble

A Sweet Lesson on Patience

Posted on July 30, 2012

A NYC Taxi driver wrote: I arrived at the address and honked the horn. After waiting a few minutes I honked again. Since this was going to be my last ride of my shift I thought about just driving away, but instead I put the car in park and walked up to the door and … Continue reading →

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Two-Step Scribble: How to save time AND use Pinterest

Posted on March 21, 2012

Have you notice how all these social media sites suck the time away from you? I mean they’re great and so much fun, but if you don’t limit yourself on them…well, you can spend all day and not even realize you did it! So other than having really great self-control and limiting the amount of … Continue reading →

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Two-Step Scribble: Pinterest 101

Posted on February 20, 2012

Have you heard the word? It’s been spread around like the newest jar of chocolate sauce and nearly just as addicting. It’s the newest social outlet. I attended a baby shower last night and everyone was talking about the table decorations. “Oh, I found it on pinterest.” was the response. But what’s so great about … Continue reading →

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Two-Step Scribble: Advice from MaryLu Tyndall

Posted on November 28, 2011

Today, I am excited to welcome MaryLu Tyndall to the farm. MaryLu has offered to share her ten scribbles of advice for writers. Here’s MaryLu: Ten things I wish I’d known before I got published 1. Learn all the writing rules. Take courses online. Read great books on writing. And then when you sit down … Continue reading →

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Two-Step Scribble: Greeting from Nano Island

Posted on November 21, 2011

Well, November has been a month for me. My goal is to write 50,000 words before the time on the clock turns to 12:00am on December 1. At this moment, I’m about 6,000 words behind where I need to be, but still I’m pressing on. I want to finish. I WILL finish. I WILL SAY … Continue reading →

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Two-Step Scribble: NaNoWriMo – Your opinion needed!

Posted on September 29, 2011

If you’ve been in the writer’s world for even a little bit of time, you’ve heard of NaNoWriMo or rather National Novel Writing Month aka November. It’s basically a club or a group of people who commit to writing a novel every November. I have a friend who has done it eight years in a … Continue reading →

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Two-Step Scribble: Homeschooling with Preschoolers

Posted on September 2, 2011

Are there any of you moms out there wearing the teacher hat? Do you have children in multiple grades? If you are like me then you do. One of my biggest struggles is finding things for my 3 year old to do while I’m teaching the boys. She wants to be involved in everything. We … Continue reading →

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Two-Step Scribble: Ways help published authors

Posted on August 23, 2011

Dina Sleiman sent this list as an email and was gracious enough to let me share the information with you. Here’s Dina: There are lots of ways you can support them (authors), and many don’t even require purchasing or reading the book. I’m going to start with Goodreads because not everyone is aware of this … Continue reading →

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Two-Step Scribble: Social Media – Blogs!

Posted on July 21, 2011

This post is a continuation of yesterday’s Social Media recap. Today I’m going to attempt to tell you about Thomas Umstattd‘s view on blogging. Or should I say that I’m only going to share the things that I found most helpful/surprising. He talked for a little over an hour and I was scrambling to take … Continue reading →