A Work in Progress

Calling all children and young-adult writers! If you haven't heard about the most educational, fun, crazy and inspirational three days of our writing year, then you MUST go to Writeoncon.com and sign up for  hours of packed, fun-filled days of writing skills, tips, trade secrets, author- advice and agent-wisdom. This is some of best stuff you'll ever find in one place (Well, other than a writer's conference in person). But, that's what writeoncon is. A conference, but online - and one that you writers can't miss. It starts the 16th and goes through the 18th. Sign up today. And get this: it's all FREE! Writeoncon Be there (in your sweats, with coffee and chocolate in copious amounts)!

I can't even begin to tell you how much I learned at Writeoncon.com What is Writeoncon? Just the best three days of interviews of agents, authors and editors from all over the country for those who live, eat and breathe reading or writing children's, middle-grade, or young adult literature. Writeoncon was the conglomeration of the some of the best knowledge, from some of the best people in the industry and all within the touch of the keyboard. Though my head is overloaded, swirling from all the information I tried to cram in there, I'm happy to tell you that I took notes. This way, I have access to what I learned right in front of me. And if that's not good enough, hey, it's online! I can go back, listen or read again, and get even more fuel for my fire.  What did I learn , you ask? What didn't I learn, is a more likely question. Writing is really an art form. And the more you study it, the better you become. Well, that is the supposed theory anyway. I th