Gabby Inspiration – Dogs are Smarter Than People
carriejonesbooks Oh. Can you smell it? That is the poem you’re about to write. That is the day you’re about to live. That’s the dog nose you’re about to boop. Inhale.…
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Poop Texting Fail
a Rafflecopter giveaway So, two weeks ago the podcast featured poop texting and writing, but somehow only our random thought was uploaded and not the full broadcast. Carrie feels this…
Don’t Give Away Your Shot. Kick to Win.
A long time ago, our daughter Em was taking karate, which was the only martial art available then in our town. She was eight years old and tiny. The instructor…
Writers, Go With Your Gut and Bring Out the Big Emotion
A lot of the times that Carrie works with writers, she notices that they are pulling back from the emotion that is happening in the story. Instead of allowing the…
Writers, Be Simple
We’ve all heard the statistics: Writers take ten years to get their first novel published, on average The average children’s book writer makes 5k a year, if she’s lucky. If…