Kidlitchat Transcript – June 22
| 1:00 am | kidlitchat: | TOPIC: Summer?s here! Do your reading/work habits change with the season? How do you avoid summer doldrums? #kidlitchat |
| 1:00 am | bonnieadamson: | TOPIC: Summer?s here! Do your reading/work habits change with the season? How do you avoid summer doldrums? #kidlitchat |
| 1:00 am | dawnmetcalf: | RT @kidlitchat: TOPIC: Summer?s here! Do your reading/work habits change with the season? How do you avoid summer doldrums? #kidlitchat |
| 1:00 am | kellyhashway: | Hi, everyone! #kidlitchat |
| 1:00 am | PeterMcL: | Is there a topic for #kidlitchat this week? |
| 1:00 am | KatGirl_Studio: | @bonnieadamson doldrums? #kidlitchat |
| 1:01 am | bonnieadamson: | @PeterMcL TOPIC: Summer?s here! Do your reading/work habits change with the season? How do you avoid summer doldrums? #kidlitchat |
| 1:01 am | bonnieadamson: | @KatGirl_Studio No wind in your sails.  #kidlitchat |
| 1:01 am | kellyhashway: | Summer unfortunately means I have to change my writing schedule since my husband is home. #kidlitchat |
| 1:01 am | lisagailgreen: | Oh Lordy, yes! Kids are out – need I say more? Would love some suggestions for squeezing it in #kidlitchat |
| 1:01 am | sharifwrites: | RT @bonnieadamson: TOPIC: Summer?s here! Do your reading/work habits change with the season? How do you avoid summer doldrums? #kidlitchat |
| 1:01 am | PeterMcL: | Oops! I tweeted too soon. Being from the southern hemisphere, I guess I should sit this one out. #kidlitchat |
| 1:02 am | CynthiaCWillis: | Summer is here! I’m thrilled. #kidlitchat |
| 1:02 am | KatApel: | #kidlitchat I’m laughing at the topic, on this windy, winter’s day DownUnder. |
| 1:02 am | bonnieadamson: | @PeterMcL Ha! Good point–you must be revving up about now. #kidlitchat |
| 1:02 am | gregpincus: | Screeching in late for #kidlitchat Maybe I’m already on Summer Hours! |
| 1:03 am | eliohouse: | @BonnieAdamson Easier to work in the summer. I’m SOLAR POWER and eat grasshoppers for energy!! I get x999 more work done. #kidlitchat |
| 1:03 am | gregpincus: | @PeterMcL Nah. Tell us how you avoid the winter doldrums #kidlitchat |
| 1:03 am | kellyhashway: | I have to grab writing time whenever and wherever I can in the summer. #kidlitchat |
| 1:03 am | PeterMcL: | @KatApel Maybe we should form a splinter group! #kidlitchat |
| 1:03 am | sharifwrites: | I’m more productive in the summer, because I have time off. #kidlitchat |
| 1:03 am | bonnieadamson: | @KatApel Yeah–we didn’t think this one through. Note to self: TWO hemispheres! #kidlitchat |
| 1:03 am | EgmontGal: | As usual, @EgmontUSA is setting a good example and working. I’m here though. #kidlitchat |
| 1:04 am | dawnmetcalf: | With summer here, the usual writing schedule goes out the window. Am now brainstorming in the car driving kids to & from camp. #kidlitchat |
| 1:04 am | KatGirl_Studio: | @bonnieadamson My hours really don’t change in the summer but if anything i have more time since we have less events #kidlitchat |
| 1:04 am | suzannelilly: | Just signing in to #kidlitchat. Hello all. Topic? |
| 1:04 am | bonnieadamson: | I have no excuse–children grown and gone–but pace in different in summer. #kidlitchat |
| 1:04 am | KatApel: | @bonnieadamson That’s okay – we have a summer break too – but that’s not now by any means. #kidlitchat |
| 1:04 am | mrswritebrain: | This summer I’m getting more done than ususal; baby arriving in Sept., so I have to! #kidlitchat |
| 1:05 am | gregpincus: | @EgmontGal Good example by @EgmontUSA? Missing #kidlitchat (and without permission? I swear!)??? OK, fine…. |
| 1:05 am | bonnieadamson: | @suzannelilly TOPIC: Summer?s here! Do your reading/work habits change with the season? How do you avoid summer doldrums? #kidlitchat |
| 1:05 am | pippinmathur: | Hello everybody! #kidlitchat |
| 1:05 am | dawnmetcalf: | @lisagailgreen I’m with you. Kids at home = writing is now a wee hours event. #kidlitchat |
| 1:05 am | KatApel: | @petermcl Yay! Another Aussie!! (And much colder where you are, I’m thinking!!! #kidlitchat |
| 1:05 am | kellyhashway: | @mrswritebrain That’s good motivation! #kidlitchat |
| 1:06 am | mrswritebrain: | Use the need to stay cool and keep my feet up to sit in recliner and write! #kidlitchat |
| 1:06 am | Amanda_Cathryn: | I get so much more done in the summer. No school! Finally have time to read for pleasure and write. #kidlitchat |
| 1:06 am | bonnieadamson: | @mrswritebrain Nothing like looming maternity to motivate you! #kidlitchat |
| 1:06 am | LisaDez: | RT @paulgreci: I won’t be able to attend #kidlitchat tonight but am giving away some YA novels on my blog. Stop by to see: http://tinyurl.com/ybswwm4 |
| 1:06 am | KatApel: | #kidlitchat I used to get more writing done over Summer – up until Yr 3, I think (for kids) but now hols seem much higher maintenance. |
| 1:06 am | lisagailgreen: | @dawnmetcalf And OH the guilt if I try to do it while they’re home… #kidlitchat |
| 1:06 am | gregpincus: | It’s interesting that for many, summer hours = more writing time and for others less. #kidlitchat |
| 1:07 am | sharifwrites: | RT @LisaDez: RT @paulgreci: won’t be able to attend #kidlitchat tonight but am giving away YA novels on my blog. http://tinyurl.com/ybswwm4 |
| 1:07 am | suzannelilly: | Same schedule for me in the summer with xtra hours. I’m a teacher, so I’m off work. #kidlitchat |
| 1:07 am | KatApel: | So we’re always zipping here & there – not so much time to write. BUT when the new school year start rolling – so do the words. #kidlitchat |
| 1:07 am | bonnieadamson: | @KarenninaPosa Hello. #kidlitchat |
| 1:07 am | TheAsianAngel: | I usually allow myself off some time in the summer because most of my deadlines are in busier parts of the year #kidlitchat |
| 1:07 am | jmartinlibrary: | #kidlitchat As a school librarian, so I get way more to write in summer. Just started new project. My goal is to finish first draft by fall. |
| 1:07 am | JennBailey: | I’m a willing slave to my children over the summer, but they are such good fodder! And driving them and their friends? Dialogue! #kidlitchat |
| 1:07 am | bonnieadamson: | Sop who feels the urge to read something trashy just because you’re “supposed to” in the summer? #kidlitchat |
| 1:08 am | maggiecary: | June/July are the only mo. I get to sit/reflect/revise and take care of my creative self.#kidlitchat |
| 1:08 am | susan_marie: | Summer’s morning light lengthens my early morning writing time. Love it. #kidlitchat |
| 1:08 am | TheAsianAngel: | Plus, it’s too hot for my brain to work at maximum capacity! ;o) #kidlitchat |
| 1:08 am | KatGirl_Studio: | in fact to speed up my writing I installed my own wiki to store all my world & character notes #kidlitchat |
| 1:08 am | JennBailey: | @bonnieadamson Me Me Me!! In my family we call it BMC – Beach Mind Candy. #kidlitchat |
| 1:08 am | KarenninaPosa: | timely topic. earlier today, I tweeted that I was bribing my kids with a movie so I can write. feeling a bit guilty now. #kidlitchat |
| 1:08 am | dawnmetcalf: | @pippinmathur @lisagailgreen YES! Sign me up for guilt if I’m even at the computer to check email or Twitter. #badmom #kidlitchat |
| 1:08 am | KatApel: | I used to worry when I had times of no writing (no time) but now I find it helps me write more productively when I do. &better. #kidlitchat |
| 1:08 am | jmartinlibrary: | #kidlitchat Summer is also great to catch up on reading books and reviews. I build my fall library order list this time of year. |
| 1:09 am | bonnieadamson: | @JennBailey Any suggestions? #kidlitchat |
| 1:09 am | cheriwilliams: | I’ve taken DRASTIC measures to make sure I get my writing time in this summer. I’m getting up early! #kidlitchat |
| 1:09 am | CynthiaCWillis: | Having LOTS of trouble with Tweetchat. Is it just me? #kidlitchat |
| 1:09 am | KatApel: | @susan_marie Ah – but that doesn’t help me. All that wasted daylight when a nightowl must sleep. Good for you though! #kidlitchat |
| 1:10 am | lisagailgreen: | @pippinmathur @dawnmetcalf I think if I had a “real” deadline I would feel better about taking the time but right now I’m on sub #kidlitchat |
| 1:10 am | tobyspeed: | #kidlitchat My work hours stay the same in summer, but I read and write lots more. Summer still = vacation. |
| 1:10 am | hollycupala: | @gregpincus what’s the topic of the eve? #kidlitchat |
| 1:10 am | dawnmetcalf: | @CheriWilliams *gasp* You’re hard core!! #kidlitchat |
| 1:10 am | suzannelilly: | @jmartinlibrary Like you, I try to get the first draft done before school starts again. #kidlitchat |
| 1:10 am | KatGirl_Studio: | @TheAsianAngel its unseasonable cool here this year only 70 instead of the normal 85-90 #kidlitchat |
| 1:10 am | pippinmathur: | @dawnmetcalf @lisagailgreen I had severe case of mom fail already, youngest knocked over highchair while I was painting #kidlitchat |
| 1:10 am | EgmontGal: | It’s an interesting time to watch booksales. Will we get them in stores in July/August? Sure hope so.Counting on school libs too #kidlitchat |
| 1:10 am | bonnieadamson: | How is the editorial schedule for publishers/agents in the summer? Busier? #kidlitchat |
| 1:11 am | mrswritebrain: | @BonnieAdamson No kidding–having trouble sleeping, too. Mid. of the night snacks and stories, afternoon naps. #kidlitchat |
| 1:11 am | KarenninaPosa: | @BonnieAdamson I didn’t know about that rule #kidlitchat |
| 1:11 am | suzannelilly: | @bonnieadamson Summer is my only read anything I want time. Love it! #kidlitchat |
| 1:11 am | fullofstars: | I’m cracking the whip over my head. I’ve been known to yell,”How bad do you want it?!” Also, it’s 100+ outside. Melt or write! #kidlitchat |
| 1:11 am | dawnmetcalf: | @maggiecary That’s always very important & often neglected. Good for you! “Taking care of [my] creative self.” #kidlitchat |
| 1:11 am | KatGirl_Studio: | @hollycupala Happy Book Birthday! =^.^= #kidlitchat |
| 1:12 am | KatApel: | @CynthiaCWillis I think chats are taking their toll on Twitter. They’re consistently slower of late. And TweetChat troubles… #kidlitchat |
| 1:12 am | pippinmathur: | @lisagailgreen @dawnmetcalf yes! I might even get help for “real” work. #kidlitchat |
| 1:12 am | PeterMcL: | Agents and editors tend to shut down during Oz summer. I had to delay submissions because of that. #kidlitchat |
| 1:12 am | dawnmetcalf: | I’ll be getting my edits in August so WOE to anyone who gets in the way of my first summer deadline! #kidlitchat |
| 1:12 am | bonnieadamson: | @KarenninaPosa You HAVE to take a trashy novel to the beach. Noble reading not allowed. #kidlitchat |
| 1:12 am | suzannelilly: | @dawnmetcalf I hear you there. Guilt when on the computer and family is waiting for me. #badmom #kidlitchat |
| 1:12 am | TheAsianAngel: | Summer’s a great time to catch up on social networking (blogs, etc) because people are too busy to post every 5 secs #kidlitchat |
| 1:12 am | EgmontGal: | @bonnieadamson I have never seen editorial pace slow. Sales meetings, targets, auctions all in summer. But more authors away #kidlitchat |
| 1:12 am | cheriwilliams: | @dawnmetcalf No lie! I’m a Night Owl, getting up early is rough! #kidlitchat |
| 1:13 am | peggysbooks: | #kidlitchat My habits don’t change much, still work mainly when kids have gone to bed, just less time cause it’s too nice to be inside. |
| 1:13 am | suzannelilly: | @CynthiaCWillis No, I couldn’t get Tweetchat to work either. #kidlitchat |
| 1:13 am | JennBailey: | @bonnieadamson YES! Just read Tropic of Night – Michael Gruber. So much fun! Not trashy but a wonderful detective/mystery/thrill #kidlitchat |
| 1:13 am | Buffyandrews: | Me, too. I think I’m in now….RT @CynthiaCWillis: Having LOTS of trouble with Tweetchat. Is it just me? #kidlitchat |
| 1:13 am | sharifwrites: | @dawnmetcalf That’s how I am with deadlines. Don’t want anyone in my way. #kidlitchat |
| 1:13 am | lisagailgreen: | @pippinmathur so long as no one was injured. That could be quite the illustration… #kidlitchat |
| 1:13 am | KatApel: | Agree. Long break. RT @PeterMcL: Agents & editors tend to shut down during Oz summer. Had to delay submissions because of that. #kidlitchat |
| 1:13 am | EgmontGal: | @PeterMcL I want to work in Australia!We take vacations, but work does not slow unfortunately.We do close early on Fridays,wahoo #kidlitchat |
| 1:13 am | Buffyandrews: | @EgmontGal Like the new pic. It is new, no? #kidlitchat |
| 1:14 am | TheAsianAngel: | Oooh. Incredibly jealous! @KatGirl_Studio: its unseasonable cool here this year only 70 instead of the normal 85-90 #kidlitchat |
| 1:14 am | mrswritebrain: | Agent response time has slowed way down, at least on my end. Chalk it up to conferences, vacations, right? #kidlitchat |
| 1:14 am | literaticat: | Summer is soooooo boring. I am inventing things to do, since everyone else in the world is on vacay. #bastardos #kidlitchat |
| 1:14 am | dawnmetcalf: | @pippinmathur @lisagailgreen Trust me when I say that I was the Queen of #Momfail this morning. You are in the clear. #kidlitchat |
| 1:14 am | bonnieadamson: | @JennBailey Yes, true trash embarrasses me–I’ll go for “light” or “thriller.” #kidlitchat |
| 1:14 am | AudryT: | Briefly poking my head into #kidlitchat, as I’ve reached a breaking point in revisions. #kidlitchat |
| 1:14 am | KarenninaPosa: | @BonnieAdamson why did no one tell me these rules before? #kidlitchat |
| 1:14 am | hollycupala: | @EgmontGal I’m counting on sales in July/August  #tellmeasecret #bookbday #kidlitchat |
| 1:14 am | EgmontGal: | @Buffyandrews Thx. Pic is from BEA, pith helmet to promote J&P Voelkel’s great @JaguarStones Al Roker’s pick this month! #kidlitchat |
| 1:15 am | delzey: | greetings all. what’s on the table tonight? #kidlitchat |
| 1:15 am | suzannelilly: | @KatApel I think FIFA is taking it’s toll on Twitter, too. #kidlitchat |
| 1:15 am | PeterMcL: | @EgmontGal If you’ll publish me, I’ll put you up! #kidlitchat |
| 1:15 am | dawnmetcalf: | @CheriWilliams Me, too! (Although I wrote one book during 4am feedings. Twas a real slaphappy romp through my brain!) #kidlitchat |
| 1:15 am | lisagailgreen: | @dawnmetcalf Yay! I say you are totally justified in that. #kidlitchat |
| 1:15 am | AudryT: | ALA is coming up, so I’m sure that’s keeping agents & editors busy. #kidlitchat |
| 1:15 am | maggiecary: | If you’re able I think that you have to be very protective of your writing time. The rest of the yr is hectic.#kidlitchat |
| 1:15 am | bonnieadamson: | @delzey Summer! #kidlitchat |
| 1:16 am | KarenninaPosa: | I’m working later cause the kidlets are sleeping later too. I wish I could say I’m waking up ealier but no go. #kidlitchat |
| 1:16 am | jmartinlibrary: | @EgmontGal So, is summer at good/bad time to go on submission w/ editors? Or does it matter? #kidlitchat |
| 1:16 am | KatApel: | For those having trouble with TweetChat, there’s instructions for using TweetDeck here: http://bit.ly/dmo4tr #kidlitchat |
| 1:16 am | JennBailey: | @bonnieadamson Try it, you’ll LOVE it! Scary, thought-provoking, great summer read! #kidlitchat |
| 1:16 am | suzannelilly: | @lisagailgreen Or a story. Escape from the Highchair Prison #kidlitchat |
| 1:16 am | Buffyandrews: | Is summer a good time to query agents? I’ve been wondering as I’m about to do this but wondered if I should wait. #kidlitchat |
| 1:16 am | 4KidLit: | RT @sharifwrites: RT @LisaDez: RT @paulgreci: won’t be able to attend #kidlitchat tonight but am giving away YA novels on my blog. http://tinyurl.com/ybswwm4 |
| 1:16 am | hollycupala: | @KatGirl_Studio thank you, Kat! #kidlitchat |
| 1:16 am | tristanbancks: | Hi all. It’s cold and overcast here in Sydney. I’m definitely much more productive in this weather than balmy summer. #kidlitchat |
| 1:16 am | bonnieadamson: | @JennBailey I wrote it down. #kidlitchat |
| 1:16 am | dawnmetcalf: | @KarenninaPosa These are the rules that we just made up! http://bit.ly/d4VvTm #kidlitchat |
| 1:17 am | KatApel: | @suzannelilly Yeah – but with #pblitchat we’ve been having troubles for about a month now… S.L.O.W. #kidlitchat |
| 1:17 am | KatGirl_Studio: | does anyone else use wiki to store notes and such for book projects? #kidlitchat |
| 1:17 am | delzey: | school let out today, so writing is tough until girls head off for camp, then i work early and late #kidlitchat |
| 1:17 am | EgmontGal: | hope ok to mention, but my aforementioned authors, J&P Voelkel, just started tweeting @JaguarStones today.They are adorable #kidlitchat |
| 1:18 am | lisagailgreen: | @suzannelilly LOL I LOVE IT! #kidlitchat |
| 1:18 am | EgmontGal: | @jmartinlibrary I would guess the agents here don’t hold auctions last week of August, but otherwise no bad time. We’re swamped! #kidlitchat |
| 1:18 am | dawnmetcalf: | @sharifwrites This is my first real official-type deadline. I feel the implied emphasis is on the word “dead.” #kidlitchat |
| 1:18 am | Buffyandrews: | @EgmontGal (Smiles) I like the helmet. #kidlitchat |
| 1:18 am | CMCabralart: | @KatGirl_Studio Is that just like a spreadsheet kinda thing or more like a wikipedia page? #kidlitchat |
| 1:18 am | Vampyr14: | Summer is easier. Getting up at 5am in summer to write, it’s light and warm. In winter (now), it’s cold and dark. #kidlitchat |
| 1:18 am | ctnyrene: | My summer schedule doesn’t really change. I still write in the dark of the night. #kidlitchat |
| 1:19 am | Buffyandrews: | RT @jmartinlibrary: @EgmontGal So, is summer at good/bad time to go on submission w/ editors? Or does it matter? #kidlitchat |
| 1:19 am | gracefuldoe: | @tristanbancks Me too! I find I’m more inclined to spend time inside in front of the computer when weather is cold. Warm=outside #kidlitchat |
| 1:19 am | gregpincus: | #kidlitchat I’ll be back shortly. Unexpected interruptions – part of the summer hours, perhaps? |
| 1:19 am | CynthiaCWillis: | @Vampyr14 I agree! I think I get more writing done with the extra sunshine. #kidlitchat |
| 1:19 am | bonnieadamson: | @JennBailey Lol, I started to buy 13 Reasons Why today, and thought, no . . .save it for fall. #kidlitchat |
| 1:19 am | EgmontGal: | @AudryT Yup, we work all day Sat and Sunday! It’s true, many eds very busy with ALA. It’s my fave convention. So much book love. #kidlitchat |
| 1:19 am | CMCabralart: | Its so hot its hard to do art unless I have my air conditioner room. #kidlitchat |
| 1:19 am | KatApel: | Mellow family time has obvious benefits for self & family – and flow-on benefits for writing. Inspiration, etc. May come later. #kidlitchat |
| 1:19 am | jmartinlibrary: | @EgmontGal It’s exciting to think about. Glad summer is not a total dead zone. Good to know. #kidlitchat |
| 1:19 am | kellyhashway: | @ctnyrene Dark nights make for scary stories! #kidlitchat |
| 1:19 am | bonnieadamson: | @gregpincus We’ll hold your place. #kidlitchat |
| 1:19 am | LaFabuliste: | Here I was being productive, and you all have to go and ruin it. #itsokay #stillloveyou #kidlitchat |
| 1:19 am | sharifwrites: | @dawnmetcalf I always anticipate skipping out on sleep. :-/ #kidlitchat |
| 1:20 am | dawnmetcalf: | @ctnyrene ?…By my side…? (INXS) #random80stunes #kidlitchat |
| 1:20 am | KatGirl_Studio: | @CMCabralart wikipedia uses a free software package called mediawiki which you can install on your own site or desktop #kidlitchat |
| 1:20 am | ctnyrene: | @kellyhashway Yes, but thats my thing so it works… #kidlitchat |
| 1:20 am | bonnieadamson: | @KatApel Same here–also having more general problems with TweetDeck. #kidlitchat |
| 1:20 am | delzey: | i write better in winter. too bad there isn’t a long vacation time then. #kidlitchat |
| 1:20 am | JennBailey: | @BonnieAdamson 13 Reasons is wonderful but you do want a Fall Brain for it. #kidlitchat |
| 1:20 am | suzannelilly: | @KatGirl_Studio Never tried it. Right now I’m using yWriter. #kidlitchat |
| 1:20 am | CMCabralart: | @KatGirl_Studio  awesome! Gotta check that out then. #kidlitchat |
| 1:20 am | dawnmetcalf: | @sharifwrites Oh dear. And I *like* sleep. #kidlitchat |
| 1:20 am | KatApel: | @tristanbancks When my fingers start to freeze-over, productivity slows. #kidlitchat |
| 1:20 am | bonnieadamson: | @KatGirl_Studio I did not know that. How useful. #kidlitchat |
| 1:21 am | jmartinlibrary: | @EgmontGal I have to pick either ALA or BEA next year. So you’d vote for ALA as the better book lovefest? #kidlitchat |
| 1:21 am | gracefuldoe: | @Vampyr14 My kids are more inclined to get up at 5am in winter for some reason, so get lots of writing done then #kidlitchat |
| 1:21 am | CynthiaCWillis: | I also love, love, love writing with the windows wide open. Can’t really do that in the winter. #kidlitchat |
| 1:21 am | deegarretson: | i’m having a hard time clearing my brain enough to write, because my day is so much more broken up with kids out of school #kidlitchat |
| 1:21 am | bonnieadamson: | @JennBailey I know–I didn’t want to read it in present mushy state. #kidlitchat |
| 1:21 am | ctnyrene: | @dawnmetcalf love inxs….miss them. #kidlitchat |
| 1:21 am | maggiecary: | After SCBWI Orlando I have revising to do but I also have new projects to start. It’s hard to delegate time. #kidlitchat |
| 1:21 am | EgmontGal: | @suzannelilly I thought you wrote “Fika” for a minute, the Swedish coffee bar by Egmont. What is FIFA? #kidlitchat |
| 1:21 am | KatGirl_Studio: | @CMCabralart I’m probably going to put a how to walkthrough on my blog soon like my other ones. #kidlitchat |
| 1:22 am | literaticat: | @Buffyandrews it makes no difference. Summer querying is fine. #kidlitchat |
| 1:22 am | KatApel: | @bonnieadamson Took me 6 wks to work out I had to actually download TweetDeck – so only got it going this week. #kidlitchat |
| 1:22 am | LaFabuliste: | Hmm… having no kids, I don’t really have anyone to interrupt my schedule. Though, with trips and outdoor movies, less time. #kidlitchat |
| 1:22 am | delzey: | yup, i hear you RT @deegarretson: …day is so much more broken up with kids out of school #kidlitchat |
| 1:22 am | bonnieadamson: | @KatApel I’m thinking of trying those fingerless Scrooge bookkeeper mittens next winter. So cold in my studio. #kidlitchat |
| 1:22 am | EgmontGal: | I love coming home when it’s light out on summer nights and reading. Less good TV, and I admit that makes a difference to me. #kidlitchat |
| 1:22 am | TheAsianAngel: | Always jealous of people who get to write all day & don’t work. #kidlitchat |
| 1:23 am | EgmontGal: | @Buffyandrews Yes, @literaticat has already told us she’s not taking any good vacations, so might as well submit, make her work #kidlitchat |
| 1:23 am | ctnyrene: | @TheAsianAngel I have to agree. The green monster gets to me too. #kidlitchat |
| 1:23 am | CMCabralart: | @TheAsianAngel Its SO boring when you get an art block tho. #kidlitchat |
| 1:23 am | maggiecary: | @deegarretson I’m just the opposite, now that you have the kids I have time to think! #kidlitchat |
| 1:23 am | dawnmetcalf: | @CynthiaCWillis Wish I had a pic of Calvin & Hobbes where Calvin is building a snowman in his room thanks to an open window. #kidlitchat |
| 1:23 am | LaFabuliste: | FYI, Carousel at Bryant Park next Monday, NYCers! Who doesn’t love a little classic movie musical action? #kidlitchat |
| 1:23 am | AudryT: | @TheAsianAngel It’s not like writing all day isn’t work, but I understand what you mean. #kidlitchat |
| 1:23 am | KatApel: | @bonnieadamson I have them!! Must admit – we’re not actually THAT cold – which is the problem. Not really worth running heater. #kidlitchat |
| 1:23 am | NathalieMvondo: | Hello! What’s tonight’s topic? #kidlitchat |
| 1:23 am | KatGirl_Studio: | @bonnieadamson it is! It has been extremely useful so far. Especially for fantasy stories where you are making up the world. #kidlitchat |
| 1:23 am | EgmontGal: | @jmartinlibrary Would def pick ALA if you are a children’s/YA fan. Much more focus on those at that one. Others agree? #kidlitchat |
| 1:23 am | rebobinar: | #kidlitchat See, that’s why, I live in Seattle. We don’t actually have summer here. So no problem. |
| 1:23 am | dawnmetcalf: | @ctnyrene Ditto. #kidlitchat |
| 1:24 am | sharifwrites: | @CynthiaCWillis It’s sweltering where I am, but in the winter and spring I love writing w/ windows open or out on the balcony. #kidlitchat |
| 1:24 am | hollycupala: | summer schedule…this is definitely a quandary for me in the summer before kindergarten… #kidlitchat |
| 1:24 am | literaticat: | @EgmontGal Well, I am moving to NY instead of taking a vacay. I couldn’t do both this summer! #kidlitchat |
| 1:24 am | KatGirl_Studio: | @rebobinar i want to move to Seattle =^.^= #kidlitchat |
| 1:24 am | nomadshan: | Writing all day *is* work. RT @TheAsianAngel: Always jealous of people who get to write all day & don’t work. #kidlitchat |
| 1:24 am | LaFabuliste: | Fall is my favorite writing season. Windows open, mug of coffee, a big gray sweater, and the world inside a pen. #kidlitchat |
| 1:24 am | jmartinlibrary: | @EgmontGal makes sense. Maybe I’d get the best of both worlds as lib. and writer at ALA #kidlitchat |
| 1:25 am | sharifwrites: | @NathalieMvondo Do our reading/writing habits change in the summer? #kidlitchat |
| 1:25 am | AudryT: | @EgmontGal I’m planning to do just that (make more work for @literaticat)…one of these days when I’m actually ready to submit. #kidlitchat |
| 1:25 am | Vampyr14: | @gracefuldoe I get up early so I can write a bit before my kids get up. Works some of the time… There’s always nighttime.#kidlitchat |
| 1:25 am | bonnieadamson: | @sharifwrites Too hot here for open windows, too. All the green outside is nice, though. #kidlitchat |
| 1:25 am | CynthiaCWillis: | @sharifwrites True. When the weather gets too, too hot, windows must go down and ac on. But i have a high tolerance for heat. #kidlitchat |
| 1:25 am | vleemahoney: | @TheAsianAngel It would be heaven to be able to write all day with no other responsibilities. Need to write at night/earlymorn. #kidlitchat |
| 1:25 am | nomadshan: | Summer’s no different for me: day job + writing + extra contract work. More daylight, tho, is awesome. #kidlitchat |
| 1:25 am | CynthiaCWillis: | @literaticat Moving is a huge job. Good luck! #kidlitchat |
| 1:25 am | lisagailgreen: | @LaFabuliste That sounds so nice, now I can’t wait for fall! #kidlitchat |
| 1:25 am | suzannelilly: | @EgmontGal FIFA = World Cup soccer. #kidlitchat |
| 1:26 am | NathalieMvondo: | @sharifwrites Oh! Thanks, Medeia. Good question… #kidlitchat |
| 1:26 am | KatApel: | @BonnieAdamson But in the house… Brrr… Hot T-shirt day outside but I have 3 long layers and still shiver. #kidlitchat |
| 1:26 am | LaFabuliste: | Augh, right now, too hot to write anywhere but Starbucks. And at Starbucks, I routinely get goosebumps from the AC. I can’t win! #kidlitchat |
| 1:26 am | CynthiaCWillis: | RT @sharifwrites: @NathalieMvondo Do our reading/writing habits change in the summer?– I think I read more. #kidlitchat |
| 1:26 am | cindysku: | I got a job as a children’s specialist in a library!! So I will need to learn more about focus more on kid lit #kidlitchat |
| 1:26 am | delzey: | anyone else wish they’d made better use of their summers as a kid? #kidlitchat |
| 1:26 am | Buffyandrews: | @dawnmetcalf I loooove all of the Calvin snowman cartoons. #kidlitchat |
| 1:27 am | lisagailgreen: | speaking of which my son just walked in and said “I want to do something together just me and you” so I guess I’m out! #kidlitchat |
| 1:27 am | ctnyrene: | @delzey Me! #kidlitchat |
| 1:27 am | LaurelSnyder: | I’m late! What’d I miss? #kidlitchat |
| 1:27 am | CMCabralart: | I write more in summer. I darw all the rest of the year. #artschool #kidlitchat |
| 1:27 am | EgmontGal: | @delzey I had sort of awesome summers as a kid and my only regret if anything was overprogramming! #kidlitchat |
| 1:27 am | CynthiaCWillis: | @lisagailgreen Awww, that’s so sweet! #kidlitchat |
| 1:27 am | writetoday: | Me too!! @AudryT @EgmontGal I’m planning to do just that (make more work for @literaticat)…when I’m actually ready to submit. #kidlitchat |
| 1:27 am | NathalieMvondo: | @delzey No, I enjoyed the way I spent every single one of them, as well as the books I read. #kidlitchat |
| 1:27 am | JanGangsei: | #kidlitchat So what summer reads are you all looking forward to? Anything you’re itching to take to the beach? |
| 1:27 am | kellyhashway: | Summer means more kids in the library taking out the books I want to read. #kidlitchat |
| 1:27 am | TheAsianAngel: | @ctnyrene Hehe! It’s my fault for checking Facebook to see what everyone’s up to. I could imagine them arguing invoices instead #kidlitchat |
| 1:28 am | bonnieadamson: | @lisagailgreen Awww. What a nice mommy moment. #kidlitchat |
| 1:28 am | LaFabuliste: | @delzey Mine were incredibly well used. Forts in woods, playing pretend, roller blading, summer camp, free play! Schedules SUCK. #kidlitchat |
| 1:28 am | EgmontGal: | @delzey I think kids should have a sense of long summer vacay stretching out that they have to fill. See Dazed and Confused. #kidlitchat |
| 1:28 am | NathalieMvondo: | RT @kellyhashway: Summer means more kids in the library taking out the books I want to read. => More power to books! #kidlitchat |
| 1:28 am | KatApel: | I like head space to write. Chunks of quiet to ponder ideas. May not be ‘writing’ them. Kids’ talk clutters – less productive. #kidlitchat |
| 1:28 am | sandyalonzo: | I’m just arriving. Hi! Hmmmm. My reading habits don’t really change but I love a nice rainy day, a fireplace, and a book. #kidlitchat |
| 1:28 am | Buffyandrews: | @EgmontGal @literaticat Just didn’t want to submit if no one was around. Seems like it’s taking forever for some fulls… #kidlitchat |
| 1:28 am | LaFabuliste: | MOCKINGJAY. Homg. August cannot get here fast enough. #kidlitchat |
| 1:28 am | kellyhashway: | I used to read while on the swings. I miss those days! #kidlitchat |
| 1:28 am | bonnieadamson: | @delzey I don’t know–I remember summers as great refueling times. I think my own kids were overbooked. #kidlitchat |
| 1:28 am | TheAsianAngel: | @cmcabralart I imagine the art block gets frustrating too! #kidlitchat |
| 1:29 am | sharifwrites: | @CynthiaCWillis I read a lot more, I’ve been noticing. #kidlitchat |
| 1:29 am | Buffyandrews: | I’m going to Harry Potter Park at Universal. Can’t wait to see how they’ve brought the books to life. #kidlitchat |
| 1:29 am | LaFabuliste: | Though, I wish I could have stored up some of that childhood summer freedom for right now. #kidlitchat |
| 1:29 am | JennBailey: | @delzey Never. They were full of so many adventures. Parades, lobstering, blueberry hunting, pirate-island seeking . . . #kidlitchat |
| 1:29 am | bonnieadamson: | @EgmontGal Exactly. Summer was roaming time. Course, it was safer to roam then. #kidlitchat |
| 1:29 am | suzannelilly: | @NathalieMvondo Hiya! The topic is your summer writing schedule. #kidlitchat |
| 1:29 am | TheAsianAngel: | @AudryT I hear ya! ;o) Just got through a round of revisions and felt I deserved a promotion #kidlitchat |
| 1:29 am | writetoday: | As a graduated student, I suddenly have time on my hands, but it is hard to make myself write more than I am used to. Any tips? #kidlitchat |
| 1:29 am | delzey: | i’m not advocating for structured summers, i just regret all the time i didn’t explore more #kidlitchat |
| 1:29 am | EgmontGal: | @LaFabuliste Have to host an SLJ webcast for Egmont on 8/24. If you see me looking at my lap…that’s where Mockingjay will be. #kidlitchat |
| 1:29 am | DDHearn: | What’s the topic? How we spent our summer vacation? #kidlitchat |
| 1:30 am | KatGirl_Studio: | @Buffyandrews So jealous! I really watch to go there. #kidlitchat |
| 1:30 am | ctnyrene: | I find I read more in the winter. Curled up, inside, toasty warm with a good book. Oh Yeah. #kidlitchat |
| 1:30 am | dawnmetcalf: | @LaFabuliste I think I’ll be using MOCKINGJAY as my reward for getting edits done. #kidlitchat |
| 1:30 am | bonnieadamson: | @Buffyandrews Ooh, that’s on my list! #kidlitchat |
| 1:30 am | suzannelilly: | So funny! RT @rebobinar: #kidlitchat See, that’s why, I live in Seattle. We don’t actually have summer here. So no problem. |
| 1:30 am | CynthiaCWillis: | @Buffyandrews I’m sooo envious! Can I crawl in your suitcase? ; ) #kidlitchat |
| 1:30 am | CMCabralart: | I’ve a question. Ive been in a 3D school for 4 yrs and I want to got to otis in the spring for illustration.Is it worth it? #kidlitchat |
| 1:30 am | gracefuldoe: | I find if it gets too hot my mind gets too sluggish to write, I have low tolerance for really hot weather #kidlitchat |
| 1:30 am | AudryT: | @EgmontGal You’re a rare gem who knows how to read WH in context of its time. Many readers judge characters by contep. culture. #kidlitchat |
| 1:30 am | bonnieadamson: | @DDHearn How does summer change your work schedule? #kidlitchat |
| 1:31 am | TheAsianAngel: | @nomadshan Yes, but you can wear pajamas to YOUR job! ;o) #kidlitchat |
| 1:31 am | DrlemonWCGGG: | #kidlitchat The way out of the doldrums? Think, Milo, Think! |
| 1:31 am | LaFabuliste: | @EgmontGal I had better just call in sick on 8/24. I had to work the day HP7 came out– my nerves! My poor nerves! Never again. #kidlitchat |
| 1:31 am | EgmontGal: | If I were a writer, might tell the story of the 60s summers I was in experimental program that mixed up suburb kids w/urban ones #kidlitchat |
| 1:31 am | delzey: | lived in LA as a kid. v. little to explore & nothing was easy to get to unless a parent drove. #kidlitchat |
| 1:31 am | CMCabralart: | I mean to change from 3D art to just drawing? ANyone got opinion on whats better? #kidlitchat |
| 1:31 am | LaurelSnyder: | @bonnieadamson Actually, it wasn’t, statistically. We just knew less aobut the neevils of the world. #kidlitchat |
| 1:31 am | gracefuldoe: | @Buffyandrews I’m so jealous! #kidlitchat |
| 1:31 am | sandyalonzo: | What’s up? I’m getting zero action on this TweetChat today. #kidlitchat |
| 1:31 am | NathalieMvondo: | Seasons do not male a huge difference in my (writing) schedule. I’m busy all year long… #kidlitchat |
| 1:31 am | DDHearn: | @bonnieadamson For me, summer means being a slave to the pruning and weeding in the garden. It takes SO much time. #kidlitchat |
| 1:32 am | EgmontGal: | @AudryT Have you read Eclipse? Wuthering Heights quoted several times.In fact it’s been reissued by a pub to look like Twilight #kidlitchat |
| 1:32 am | hollycupala: | I love how chill this summer #kidlitchat is. |
| 1:32 am | LaFabuliste: | So, think it’s possible to write a novel over a summer? BC there is NOTHING going on at Law School for summer, and I get bored. #kidlitchat |
| 1:32 am | dawnmetcalf: | @Buffyandrews I am constantly inspired by Calvin & Hobbes. (Like How Publishing is A Lot Like Calvinball! http://bit.ly/dD3u5U ) #kidlitchat |
| 1:32 am | JennBailey: | I go letterboxing with my sons over summer – http://www.thesociallites.com/2009/08/how-my-iphone-saved-the-weekend/ #kidlitchat |
| 1:32 am | CynthiaCWillis: | @sandyalonzo Tweetchat has been cranky tonight. #kidlitchat |
| 1:32 am | rebobinar: | @KatGirl_Studio #kidlitchat come enjoy Juneuary with us!! |
| 1:32 am | hollycupala: | @EgmontGal are you thinking of writing…? #kidlitchat |
| 1:32 am | bonnieadamson: | @LaurelSnyder Naw, suburban Atlanta in the 50s WAS safe. #kidlitchat |
| 1:33 am | DDHearn: | @CMCabralart If you aren’t already savvy with the digital art, make sure you take some courses in that. Drawing as well. #kidlitchat |
| 1:33 am | delzey: | @LaFabuliste why not? screenwriters wrote children’s books on the picket lines a while back #kidlitchat |
| 1:33 am | AudryT: | @EgmontGal I read Eclipse, but I *remember* Wuthering Heights. #takethatasyouwill #kidlitchat |
| 1:33 am | suzannelilly: | Playing all day in a swimsuit IS the best. RT @delzey: anyone else wish they’d made better use of their summers as a kid? #kidlitchat |
| 1:33 am | EgmontGal: | @AudryT Also, I think those characters were “out of time.”No one was behaving like that in 1850 either, were they? Sure hope not #kidlitchat |
| 1:33 am | EgmontGal: | @hollycupala No #kidlitchat |
| 1:33 am | suzannelilly: | @lisagailgreen Aw! How sweet. Have fun! #kidlitchat |
| 1:33 am | deegarretson: | @JanGangsei I’m only a few chapters into The Rise of Renegade X and am dying to find time to finish. I love the mom villian! #kidlitchat |
| 1:33 am | swdooley: | Very late tonight. Hello! #kidlitchat |
| 1:34 am | EgmontGal: | RT @DrlemonWCGGG: #kidlitchat The way out of the doldrums? Think, Milo, Think! #kidlitchat |
| 1:34 am | LaurelSnyder: | @bonnieadamson I just mean that the overprotective moms today have statistically less to worry about. #eveninmarietta #kidlitchat |
| 1:34 am | CMCabralart: | @DDHearn My school is all digital. >.> unnn. Im getting tired of it. #kidlitchat |
| 1:34 am | peg366: | I’m late, also. Packing for a trip and almost forgot what night it is. #kidlitchat |
| 1:34 am | LaFabuliste: | Do we know when the next Philip Ness book comes out? Is that summer? Or am I going to have to mug someone to get a copy soon? #kidlitchat |
| 1:34 am | EgmontGal: | @deegarretson @JanGengsei Thanks for the shoutout to Renegade X! You can see its spine in my Twitter background. Love it so. #kidlitchat |
| 1:34 am | CMCabralart: | Bye kitlitchaters. >.> Have to go research things. Night! #kidlitchat |
| 1:34 am | dawnmetcalf: | @TheAsianAngel We need a Writer’s Conference Pajama Party. #kidlitchat |
| 1:35 am | Becky_Levine: | Hey, all–I’m dropping in late. Topic? #kidlitchat |
| 1:35 am | TheAsianAngel: | @vleemahoney I reserve mine for wknds. Cranky early morning. Would probly write “The jerks went to the stupid enchanted castle.” #kidlitchat |
| 1:35 am | ctnyrene: | @dawnmetcalf Oooh, I’m in. #kidlitchat |
| 1:35 am | DDHearn: | @CMCabralart If you want to illustrate, it’s good that you have digital skills. But also good drawing, composition, color. #kidlitchat |
| 1:35 am | bonnieadamson: | @LaurelSnyder True enough. I wish I could have let my kids ride their bikes all over like I did. #eveninmarietta #kidlitchat |
| 1:35 am | EgmontGal: | Yes, I have to go follow @EgmontUSA’s excellent example and read this long ms we are loving. Sorry, don’t mean to tease. #kidlitchat |
| 1:35 am | NathalieMvondo: | @suzannelilly Thanks Suzanne. #kidlitchat |
| 1:35 am | CynthiaCWillis: | Summer also means SCBWI annual conference in LA. Anyone going? #kidlitchat |
| 1:35 am | j_ro333: | #kidlitchat Not on summer hours, but I just got out of a bath. Drying off now. What did I miss? |
| 1:36 am | bonnieadamson: | @Becky_Levine TOPIC: Summer?s here! Do your reading/work habits change with the season? How do you avoid summer doldrums? #kidlitchat |
| 1:36 am | DDHearn: | @bonnieadamson I agree Bonnie. I grew up in NJ and mom never knew where we were. Biking everywhere, crawling in sewers. fun. #kidlitchat |
| 1:36 am | hollycupala: | @EgmontGal ha, that is definitive! #kidlitchat |
| 1:36 am | peg366: | Kids being home does effect my writing schedule. Wish the kids could ride their bikes in the neighborhood but can’t here. #kidlitchat |
| 1:36 am | TheAsianAngel: | Ooh! I hearts this idea! Or just a PJ day. Solidarity in sleepwear! @dawnmetcalf: We need a Writer’s Conference Pajama Party. #kidlitchat |
| 1:37 am | dawnmetcalf: | LOL! I’d read that story! RT @TheAsianAngel @vleemahoney Would probably write “The jerks went to the stupid enchanted castle.” #kidlitchat |
| 1:37 am | j_ro333: | #kidlitchat Gonna be in and out tonight. Wifey and I are doin’ something fun together. Get your head outta the gutter. It ain’t that. |
| 1:37 am | DDHearn: | @bonnieadamson We have a lovely stream near where I live, but I never would dare let my kids wander there alone. Sad. #kidlitchat |
| 1:37 am | KatGirl_Studio: | @CynthiaCWillis sadly not this year  I will just be reading everyone’s tweets and blogs #kidlitchat |
| 1:37 am | gregpincus: | @CynthiaCWillis I’ll be at the #SCBWI summer conference #kidlitchat |
| 1:37 am | LaFabuliste: | I was allowed to go anywhere, just not allowed to cross the street. Would have been limiting, except we lived on cul-de-sac. #kidlitchat |
| 1:37 am | swdooley: | Summer should be great for my work habits, with no school. But I write in a routine before school. In summer, I’m lost. #kidlitchat |
| 1:37 am | AudryT: | BTW, if you’re near L.A., you can sign up 4 #midnightreleaseparty 4 #ClockworkAngel at @BordersGlendale http://bit.ly/clockaug30 #kidlitchat |
| 1:37 am | delzey: | now that i think about it, summer is when i get my ideas, winter is when i write them #kidlitchat |
| 1:38 am | DDHearn: | @bonnieadamson Back when I actually got work it came in summer. Editors would assign illustrations before going on vacation. #kidlitchat |
| 1:38 am | JennBailey: | @DDHearn Sounds like my summers. Got grounded more than once because I wasn’t home when the Street Lights came on. #kidlitchat |
| 1:38 am | Becky_Levine: | @BonnieAdamson Thanks, Bonnie! #kidlitchat |
| 1:38 am | CynthiaCWillis: | @KatGirl_Studio You will be missed. #kidlitchat |
| 1:38 am | bonnieadamson: | @DDHearn I know–every suburban street backed up to woods–we’d take lunch and explore all day. The mind boggles. #kidlitchat |
| 1:38 am | peg366: | I have to be more creative in my use of my time. Writing late at night and all weekend when kids with mom. #kidlitchat |
| 1:38 am | gregpincus: | @delzey That’s kinda like writer hibernation…. #kidlitchat |
| 1:38 am | CynthiaCWillis: | @gregpincus Yea!!! #kidlitchat |
| 1:38 am | dawnmetcalf: | @TheAsianAngel @ctnyrene Brilliant=”Solidarity in Sleepwear”! That’d be a fun blogosphere-post-a-palooza! #kidlitchat |
| 1:38 am | LaFabuliste: | How does summer change your inspiration? Winter much more stark– good for darker writing. Does summer= lighter, fluffier work? #kidlitchat |
| 1:38 am | bonnieadamson: | @DDHearn I am snowed under with deadlines right now–maybe that’s why! #kidlitchat |
| 1:38 am | Becky_Levine: | I think I read more. Son is (luckily) a big reader & that’s some of our “together” time. #kidlitchat |
| 1:39 am | NathalieMvondo: | RT @AudryT: ur near L.A., you can sign up 4 #midnightreleaseparty 4 #ClockworkAngel at @BordersGlendale http://bit.ly/clockaug30 #kidlitchat |
| 1:39 am | delzey: | @gregpincus except for the not being able to sleep because its too hot part #kidlitchat |
| 1:39 am | bonnieadamson: | So TweetChat has totally quit on me. TweetDeck still working . . . #kidlitchat |
| 1:39 am | Becky_Levine: | Writing–seems a bit more doable this summer, with teenage son, rather than younger child. #kidlitchat |
| 1:39 am | JanGangsei: | @deegarretson Yes, definitely! #kidlitchat |
| 1:39 am | CynthiaCWillis: | Tweetchat: Grrrrrr. #kidlitchat |
| 1:40 am | DDHearn: | @JennBailey We’d play hide and seek all over the backyards at twilight, then catch fireflies. Great fun. #kidlitchat |
| 1:40 am | NathalieMvondo: | @bonnieadamson I’m on Tweetchat and I receive your tweets. #kidlitchat |
| 1:40 am | NVCrittenden: | Hi! Just got the kids to bed! #kidlitchat |
| 1:40 am | writetoday: | @swdooley Me too. I suddenly have lots of time, but hard to write more than I’m used to. How to change? #kidlitchat |
| 1:40 am | hollycupala: | Thanks for the RT @SimplyReading @JeremyWest! I wish it was #bookbday every day! #tellmeasecret #kidlitchat |
| 1:40 am | peg366: | I enrolled the kids in workshops at the library-have been getting some great ideas from their programs. Have to follow through. #kidlitchat |
| 1:40 am | AudryT: | @LaFabuliste Summer = lighter writing? I’m writing about car crashes, a brutual death, and rivers of blood. #kidlitchat |
| 1:40 am | DDHearn: | @bonnieadamson Of course we didn’t have bike helmets, seat belts or baby proofed homes, either. #kidlitchat |
| 1:41 am | LaFabuliste: | We played hide-and-seek in dark all the time. My lil brother had the shoes that lit up when you ran, so he was always It. HA. #kidlitchat |
| 1:41 am | bonnieadamson: | @NathalieMvondo Hi! I can see you In TD only. #kidlitchat |
| 1:41 am | KatGirl_Studio: | @DDHearn I have always wanted to see a real firefly #kidlitchat |
| 1:41 am | Becky_Levine: | My son’s doing his 1st summer sleepaway camp–two weeks. I’ll be writing a LOT. #kidlitchat |
| 1:41 am | peg366: | @DDHearn Wasn’t it great to be a kid. #kidlitchat |
| 1:41 am | DDHearn: | @bonnieadamson Tonight so far tweetchat is working for me. Hope it’ll keep up. #kidlitchat |
| 1:41 am | LaFabuliste: | @AudryT Then I’d hate to see what you’re like in January! I just know I feel more slow, easy, bright in the summer. #kidlitchat |
| 1:41 am | bonnieadamson: | @DDHearn lol, no. #kidlitchat |
| 1:41 am | JennBailey: | Kids begging to go in the pool. THIS is summer. Must away and play lifeguard. Thanks @gregpincus and @bonnieadamson #kidlitchat |
| 1:42 am | swdooley: | @writetoday It’s elementary-school of me, but I set a timer and write till it rings. Makes me feel rushed. Seems to work. #kidlitchat |
| 1:42 am | suzannelilly: | @DDHearn I wish kids had that much freedom today. It’s imagination inspiration. #kidlitchat |
| 1:42 am | bonnieadamson: | @KatGirl_Studio NO FIREFLIES? Seriously? #kidlitchat |
| 1:42 am | PaulWHankins: | Summer is big reading season for me. I can catch up on new titles and those that had been borrowed by students during the year. #kidlitchat |
| 1:42 am | peg366: | @JennBailey Have fun with the kids. #kidlitchat |
| 1:42 am | DDHearn: | @KatGirl_Studio Fireflies are magical. I look out my window at night and it’s fairyland outside. #kidlitchat |
| 1:42 am | bonnieadamson: | @JennBailey Goodnight, Jenn–um, good evening! #kidlitchat |
| 1:43 am | CynthiaCWillis: | RT @bonnieadamson: @KatGirl_Studio NO FIREFLIES? Seriously?– I can’t imagine a summer night without the fireflies! #kidlitchat |
| 1:43 am | DDHearn: | @peg366 For me it was great being a kid until I hit 13. Junior high was hell on earth for me. #kidlitchat |
| 1:43 am | jimhill: | @bonnieadamson I think I write more in the Summer. I go to the Cape Cod Writers Conference in August. Like to be ready. #kidlitchat |
| 1:43 am | KatGirl_Studio: | @bonnieadamson I live in SF bay in California= no fireflies #kidlitchat |
| 1:43 am | dshiplett: | Hi all! Late arrival Was out shoppin’ for non-necessities! #kidlitchat |
| 1:43 am | suzannelilly: | @swdooley I do the timer thing too! I thought I was alone in the universe with that. #kidlitchat |
| 1:43 am | CynthiaCWillis: | @KatGirl_Studio I wish I could send you some! #kidlitchat |
| 1:43 am | Becky_Levine: | Anyone else’s kids have summer-reading pattern? Son does lots of rereading right after school ends. Branches out more July/Aug. #kidlitchat |
| 1:43 am | PaulWHankins: | I’m at Writing Project site this week. Always good for generating a couple of new stems for writing. Penny Kittle coming. #kidlitchat |
| 1:44 am | bonnieadamson: | @jimhill Good point–many conferences in the fall have application/submission deadlines in the summer. #kidlitchat |
| 1:44 am | DDHearn: | @suzannelilly I agree. We played so much make believe, and having free run of the town added to it. #kidlitchat |
| 1:44 am | LaFabuliste: | @DDHearn Ah, teenage summers were the best! Sleepovers, first kisses, riding bikes, late movies, ice cream with boys! #kidlitchat |
| 1:44 am | dshiplett: | I love fireflies! Luckily we have a few in Huntsville #kidlitchat |
| 1:44 am | swdooley: | @suzannelilly Me too! Good to know! #kidlitchat |
| 1:44 am | j_ro333: | #kidlitchat Oops. Being pulled away already. Might get back later. Enjoy everybody. Thanks, @BonnieAdamson and @gregpincus |
| 1:45 am | bonnieadamson: | @KatGirl_Studio Why not? This mystifies me. I thought fireflies were a universal phenomenon. #kidlitchat |
| 1:45 am | CynthiaCWillis: | For me, teen summers included riding horses, too. The best!!! #kidlitchat |
| 1:45 am | KatGirl_Studio: | @CynthiaCWillis i wish you could too! #kidlitchat |
| 1:45 am | AudryT: | I want to be writing on Cape Cod. *sigh* Might get to go later this year. #kidlitchat |
| 1:45 am | DDHearn: | @LaFabuliste I kind of missed out on the fun teen scene. #kidlitchat |
| 1:45 am | peg366: | I just always carry a notebook with me. that way if I get and idea or see something that interest me I can write it down. #kidlitchat |
| 1:45 am | LaFabuliste: | I often wonder what the imaginations of the future will look like. I feel like I am last gen. that didn’t have cable/internet… #kidlitchat |
| 1:45 am | KatGirl_Studio: | @bonnieadamson I’m not sure I will have to look it up on wikipedia #kidlitchat |
| 1:45 am | kellyhashway: | @peg366 I do, too! #kidlitchat |
| 1:46 am | LaFabuliste: | constantly as we were growing up. I didn’t have those things, so I came home from school and wrote stories. Do kids do that now? #kidlitchat |
| 1:46 am | dshiplett: | @peg366 What a good idea! I always mean to do something like that. I’ve lost so many ideas to my ADD attention span… #kidlitchat |
| 1:46 am | DDHearn: | Anyhoo…back to topic. My writing or illustrating patterns aren’t much different for winter or summer. #kidlitchat |
| 1:46 am | KatGirl_Studio: | @peg366 me too! then I used those sticky tabs to mark which sections are for what story #kidlitchat |
| 1:46 am | LaFabuliste: | But at the same time, kids today have so much information and education at their fingers. Something must grow out of that. #kidlitchat |
| 1:47 am | dawnmetcalf: | Back from son’s night terrors. What did I miss? #kidlitchat |
| 1:47 am | PaulWHankins: | @LaFabuliste I wonder if imagination won’t be more about synthesis than creation. We see a lot of mashups on the net these days. #kidlitchat |
| 1:47 am | JanGangsei: | #kidlitchat I like writing stories set during summer break — that amazing sense of freedom you have as a kid & belief anything’s possible. |
| 1:47 am | suzannelilly: | @bonnieadamson We don’t have fireflies in the SW US. #kidlitchat |
| 1:47 am | KatApel: | @BonnieAdamson I had never seen ffly until I married. None where I grew up. Even now, only see a few, maybe 3 or 4 times a year. #kidlitchat |
| 1:47 am | bonnieadamson: | @LaFabuliste When slightly younger, we used to get together and write stories. Lol, mostly about homeless puppies. #kidlitchat |
| 1:47 am | dshiplett: | @JanGangsei I’m working on a YA novel set in the summer, and I agree completely! #kidlitchat |
| 1:47 am | jimhill: | Takes a while to get used to my wife (a teacher) being home in the summer. Also, 2.5 yr old will be home a lot more. My home… #kidlitchat |
| 1:47 am | dawnmetcalf: | @TheAsianAngel *hee hee* #kidlitchat |
| 1:47 am | auntieflamingo: | @Becky_Levine I have my kids join the summer reading club at the library. They get prizes and that motivates them to read. #kidlitchat |
| 1:48 am | DDHearn: | @LaFabuliste It will be different. But I think what kids might be missing today are the sensory experiences from nature. #kidlitchat |
| 1:48 am | KatApel: | @BonnieAdamson @KatGirl_Studio #kidlitchat Fireflies still make me buzz inside. Magical moments. |
| 1:48 am | dshiplett: | @bonnieadamson I remember those days! I still have some of the stories we wrote as kids… god awful things LOL #kidlitchat |
| 1:48 am | LaFabuliste: | @bonnieadamson My first was about rabbits and lizards at school under a tree. Then, branched into me & my friends dating NSYNC. #kidlitchat |
| 1:48 am | jimhill: | office gets hectic for a bit. May rent some space outside of the home office/studio this year. #kidlitchat |
| 1:48 am | DDHearn: | @bonnieadamson I wrote about monsters a lot when I was a kid. Inspired by the old Japanese monster films, I’m sure. #kidlitchat |
| 1:48 am | bonnieadamson: | @suzannelilly @KatApel I learned something tonight.! #kidlitchat |
| 1:48 am | Becky_Levine: | @auntieflamingo My son did that a couple of times, but he never wanted the prizes and got bored with record-keeping. #kidlitchat |
| 1:48 am | swdooley: | I tend to write more grim, descriptive passages in winter. In summer, they’re active and energetic. My winter writing is cold. #kidlitchat |
| 1:48 am | kellyhashway: | @JanGangsei My WIP is set during summer break, but it definitely doesn’t have that sense of freedom. Exact opposite really. #kidlitchat |
| 1:49 am | JanGangsei: | @dshiplett Yes, there’s something about the wide open space of summer that’s so inspiring. #kidlitchat |
| 1:49 am | dawnmetcalf: | @KatApel @BonnieAdamson Sadness! We get firefly mating dances in the backyard. Looks like a floating universe in green. #kidlitchat |
| 1:49 am | LaFabuliste: | @PaulWHankins But someone will need to supply the startup information– that original piece that they’ll expand on? #kidlitchat |
| 1:49 am | bonnieadamson: | @LaFabuliste You must be about my daughter’s age–we went through the NSYNC years . . . #kidlitchat |
| 1:49 am | kdueykduey: | @peg366 I carry a digicorder now, with 5 files.QUICK! and catches the excitement in my voice–instant respark when I replay. #kidlitchat |
| 1:49 am | dawnmetcalf: | RT @LaFabuliste: @DDHearn Ah, teenage summers were the best! Sleepovers, first kisses, riding bikes, late movies, ice cream with boys! #kidlitchat |
| 1:49 am | dshiplett: | @DDHearn @bonnieadamson monsters, fun! i wrote about talking dogs and Newsies. We were Newsies fanatics growing up #kidlitchat |
| 1:50 am | LaFabuliste: | @bonnieadamson Yes. Lots and lots of passages about hanging out poolside with boyfriends named Lance and Justin, they LOVED us! #kidlitchat |
| 1:50 am | bonnieadamson: | @dshiplett I used to illustrate mine, natch–sad-eyed cocker spaniels were my specialty. #kidlitchat |
| 1:50 am | kellyhashway: | @kdueykduey I need to get one of those! #kidlitchat |
| 1:50 am | KatGirl_Studio: | @swdooley I write more cheerful ones in the winter because i perform at the Dickens Christmas festival every weekend #kidlitchat |
| 1:50 am | TheAsianAngel: | I love fireflies. I laugh like I’m five when I see one. #kidlitchat |
| 1:51 am | DDHearn: | @bonnieadamson I illustrated mine, too. I loved drawing monsters and dinosaurs. #kidlitchat |
| 1:51 am | writetoday: | I like to write MG set in small towns for the same reason, freedom to be on their own. @dshiplett @JanGangsei #kidlitchat |
| 1:51 am | dshiplett: | @bonnieadamson @LaFabuliste NSYNC! Ahhh, youth. I have so many fond memories of “my boys”. They were my first obsessions #kidlitchat |
| 1:51 am | bonnieadamson: | @DDHearn Was just remembering the other day how much I devoured creepy scary comic books: The Thing from the Sewer, et al. #kidlitchat |
| 1:51 am | KatGirl_Studio: | @dawnmetcalf so jealous! I want to see fireflies. #kidlitchat |
| 1:51 am | JanGangsei: | @kellyhashway Sounds intriguing! #kidlitchat |
| 1:51 am | PaulWHankins: | @LaFabuliste They’re being mentored now when top sellers of past two years were 20% original material added to original works. #kidlitchat |
| 1:51 am | kdueykduey: | @kellyhashway it has been an amazing tool for me. Someone tried to steal my backpack once, digicorder inside. I ran him DOWN. #kidlitchat |
| 1:51 am | DDHearn: | I wish I could recapture the pure fun of writing or drawing, instead of wondering if anyone else will like it. #kidlitchat |
| 1:52 am | dshiplett: | @DDHearn @bonnieadamson Yep I have illustrations of those stories too! Also god awful LOL #kidlitchat |
| 1:52 am | bonnieadamson: | @dshiplett My daughter made sparkly posters. She doesn’t like to be reminded now. #kidlitchat |
| 1:52 am | kellyhashway: | @kdueykduey Good for you. That’s a valuable little tool! #kidlitchat |
| 1:52 am | KatGirl_Studio: | @bonnieadamson maybe we don’t have them because it’s not humid enough here. #kidlitchat |
| 1:52 am | PaulWHankins: | RT @DDHearn: I wish I could recapture the pure fun of writing or drawing, instead of wondering if anyone else will like it. #kidlitchat |
| 1:52 am | CynthiaCWillis: | RT @KatGirl_Studio: @dawnmetcalf so jealous! I want to see fireflies. –Are there YouTube firefly clips? Just wondering. ; ) #kidlitchat |
| 1:52 am | kellyhashway: | @JanGangsei I hope so! #kidlitchat |
| 1:52 am | LaFabuliste: | @PaulWHankins What sellers? Like Percy Jackson? #kidlitchat |
| 1:52 am | DDHearn: | @bonnieadamson I tended to like the humorous comics more, but enjoyed Alfred Hitchcock books. #kidlitchat |
| 1:52 am | dshiplett: | @DDHearn so, so true! I’m always worried about that as well. It does tend to take away a bit of the pure passion of the work… #kidlitchat |
| 1:53 am | KatApel: | Bonnie can I make quick mention of #pblitchat? All about picture books. Sunday 6:30pm PST/9:30pm EST http://bit.ly/cSMhFU #kidlitchat Ta! |
| 1:53 am | KatGirl_Studio: | @CynthiaCWillis probably but not really the same as actually seeing them. #kidlitchat |
| 1:53 am | LaFabuliste: | @DDHearn I think that comes across in a lot of books. If it wasn’t fun as hell to write Harry Potter, then I might as well die. #kidlitchat |
| 1:53 am | dshiplett: | @KatApel Oooh, new time! I may be able to make them #kidlitchat |
| 1:53 am | AudryT: | RT@tehawesomersace Looking for paranormal romance titles where the girl is “special” but the boy is not. #kidlitchat |
| 1:53 am | bonnieadamson: | @KatGirl_Studio I will have to look it up, too–we probably just have more bugs here altogeher! #kidlitchat |
| 1:54 am | swdooley: | My 110-pound dog is afraid of fireflies. #kidlitchat |
| 1:54 am | DDHearn: | I love the drawings I did as a kid. I was just doing it for the love of it. I need to get back to that, and it’s so hard. #kidlitchat |
| 1:54 am | KatGirl_Studio: | @KatApel I’m sad i no longer can come to the chat but i am always out of the house on weekends. #kidlitchat |
| 1:54 am | bonnieadamson: | @KatApel Absolutely! I keep meaning to stop by . . . #pblitchat #kidlitchat |
| 1:54 am | JanGangsei: | @writetoday I’m a fan of small town summers, myself . #kidlitchat |
| 1:54 am | CynthiaCWillis: | RT @swdooley: My 110-pound dog is afraid of fireflies. — THAT is hilarious! #kidlitchat |
| 1:54 am | jimhill: | @DDHearn @bonnieadamson Avengers and Spider-Man comics. Then my older brother gave me Conan the Barbarian books. Read them all. #kidlitchat |
| 1:54 am | kellyhashway: | @swdooley That’s ok. My German shepherd is afraid of wind. #kidlitchat |
| 1:54 am | LaFabuliste: | @tehawesomersace They don’t exist! (she says in a massive generalization) That would mess up the power dynamic. #kidlitchat |
| 1:55 am | delzey: | i saw fireflies. once. in tennesee while traveling across the country. never before, never since. #kidlitchat |
| 1:55 am | KatGirl_Studio: | @swdooley my studio cat’s afraid of hummingbirds #kidlitchat |
| 1:55 am | DDHearn: | @KatApel I’m so glad #pblitchat is a half hour earlier now. I might actually be able to catch it once in awhile. #kidlitchat |
| 1:55 am | suzannelilly: | @DDHearn I liked reading Ray Bradbury. I wanted to BE Ray Bradbury. #kidlitchat |
| 1:55 am | PaulWHankins: | @LaFabuliste Pride Prejudice and Zombies, Sense and Sensibility and Seamonsters. New one is supposed to be Anna Android. #kidlitchat |
| 1:55 am | KatApel: | @dshiplett Yes – new time and day. Slightly earlier night for our US friends. (That’s 11:30am AEST in Oz) #pblitchat #kidlitchat |
| 1:55 am | dshiplett: | @bonnieadamson @KatGirl_Studio Come down to my house! We live right next to a swamp. Loooots of buggies here!  #kidlitchat |
| 1:55 am | kimberlyjsmith: | Have a ? for #kidlitchat — if telling dual POV, can one be 1st P, another 3rd? |
| 1:55 am | bonnieadamson: | @KatApel Is this a permanent time change? I thought you were on Monday? #pblitchat #kidlitchat |
| 1:56 am | KatApel: | @BonnieAdamson Thanks! Would love to you have – but know how busy life gets. #pblitchat #kidlitchat |
| 1:56 am | LaFabuliste: | I think lots of the paranormal draw is that it’s Everygirl (Like ME!) who is Seen by A Special Boy. Reverse doesn’t work-… #kidlitchat |
| 1:56 am | jimhill: | I would redraw my panels of my favorite comics. And *maybe* there’s a few recordings of me reading the Hulk. #EarlyAudioComics #kidlitchat |
| 1:56 am | LaFabuliste: | Makes HIM special, not me. And I wager that most of the para romance audience is still teen girls. #kidlitchat |
| 1:56 am | kellyhashway: | @kimberlyjsmith James Patterson does that in the Maximum Ride series. #kidlitchat |
| 1:56 am | PaulWHankins: | Grew up in N.Michigan where firework shows were funded by Mason jars on the counters of convenience stores and local businesses. #kidlitchat |
| 1:56 am | bonnieadamson: | @jimhill I loved superheroes and Twilight-Zonish stuff. Scared myself to death, lol. #kidlitchat |
| 1:57 am | CynthiaCWillis: | I’m turning into a pumpkin even though it’s summer. Time to go. Happy tweeting! #kidlitchat |
| 1:57 am | KatGirl_Studio: | @dshiplett I live near marshland we have geese, heron and jackrabbits #kidlitchat |
| 1:57 am | DDHearn: | @LaFabuliste Yeah…it’s about time the “ordinary” girl gets the hunk. So often it’s the plain guy getting the beauty. #kidlitchat |
| 1:57 am | dshiplett: | @kimberlyjsmith good ?! i’m not sure, though imo it would be difficult to pull off. however, i’m all for a challenge #kidlitchat |
| 1:57 am | thebookbarr: | Hi #kidlitchat folks. Just reading through and loving your tweets tonight. |
| 1:57 am | suzannelilly: | Please answer! I asked a friend same ? today. @kimberlyjsmith: Have a ? for #kidlitchat if telling dual POV, can one be 1st P, another 3rd? |
| 1:57 am | kdueykduey: | @PaulWHankins Oooooohhhhhhhhhhh mason jars. #kidlitchat |
| 1:57 am | delzey: | @PaulWHankins fireworks were legal in my hometown and we’d buy shopping bags full and go crazy 4th of july! #kidlitchat |
| 1:57 am | dshiplett: | @KatGirl_Studio sounds wonderful! #kidlitchat |
| 1:57 am | AudryT: | @LaFabuliste I’ve got one where the boy is special, but with caveats, and there are two girls who are more special than he is. #kidlitchat |
| 1:57 am | peg366: | @kdueykduey Great idea digital recorder. Sorry to respond late. Yelling kid takes precednce tonight. #kidlitchat |
| 1:57 am | writetoday: | @JanGangsei I grew up in a suburb with lots of safety and freedom, but now the only way to make that believable is a small town. #kidlitchat |
| 1:58 am | KatApel: | @KatApel Yes – New & permanent. Co-convenor @KarenCollum found Tuesday a push & 1/2hr earlier helps US tweeps. #pblitchat #kidlitchat |
| 1:58 am | DDHearn: | @bonnieadamson I still get the creeps from that episode of Twilight Zone when the girl fell through her wall. #kidlitchat |
| 1:58 am | LaFabuliste: | @DDHearn Strangely, plain guy/beauty happens a LOT in film. Opposite in books– plain Jane w/hunkorama. Gender dif in creators. #kidlitchat |
| 1:58 am | jimhill: | @bonnieadamson I liked the scary ones too. Until I was left home alone. #crybaby #kidlitchat |
| 1:58 am | KatGirl_Studio: | @dshiplett oh and lots and lots of squirrels, black capped chickadees, ravens and crows #kidlitchat |
| 1:58 am | kdueykduey: | @kimberlyjsmith I use 1st/3rd in my trilogy, every other chapter. (the one I should be writing NOW) #kidlitchat |
| 1:58 am | dawnmetcalf: | @LaFabuliste Well, I know of a few & think they work fine. (Confession: I *love* flipping established dynamics!) #kidlitchat |
| 1:59 am | PaulWHankins: | @kdueykduey Is it really an Arnold Palmer if you are not sipping it from a Mason jar? I would challenge this notion. #kidlitchat |
| 1:59 am | bonnieadamson: | @DDHearn YES!! I remember that one. made perfect sense to me. Was sure it was going to happen! #kidlitchat |
| 1:59 am | jimhill: | Did I mention that @KatApel is my hero of the day? #kidlitchat |
| 1:59 am | dshiplett: | @KatGirl_Studio we just had a 6-ft alligator taken out of our neighborhood pond the other day!!! #kidlitchat |
| 1:59 am | DDHearn: | @suzannelilly I think I’ve seen first and third person mixed in one novel. Just break it up for clarity. #kidlitchat |
| 1:59 am | KatGirl_Studio: | @LaFabuliste most likely. #kidlitchat |
| 1:59 am | kimberlyjsmith: | @EgmontGal I went to experimental elem school in early 70s — no walls, paper, all “free form”. Ur summer exp’s sound cool tho. #kidlitchat |
| 1:59 am | KatGirl_Studio: | @dshiplett really! #kidlitchat |
| 2:00 am | bonnieadamson: | @jimhill I always slept with a light on. #crybaby #kidlitchat |
| 2:00 am | LaFabuliste: | @dawnmetcalf Me, too!!! I’m just generalizing, re: what I see in the market. #kidlitchat |
| 2:00 am | JanGangsei: | #kidlitchat This whole chat’s making me want to don some flip-flops, chase fireflies and eat a Popscicle by a lake somewhere! |
| 2:00 am | kimberlyjsmith: | RT @kellyhashway: @kimberlyjsmith James Patterson does that in the Maximum Ride series. #kidlitchat |
| 2:00 am | kellyhashway: | Time for me to get going. Thanks for another great chat! #kidlitchat |
| 2:00 am | KatApel: | If anyone wants to check times/days (past transcripts) for #pblitchat check the blog. http://bit.ly/cSMhFU #kidlitchat |
| 2:00 am | dshiplett: | @kimberlyjsmith Sounds wicked cool! #kidlitchat |
| 2:00 am | delzey: | summers was also when i saw a lot of classic movies on TV in the afternoons. a lot of black & white. great education! #kidlitchat |
| 2:00 am | PaulWHankins: | @delzey Oh, of course. We would do same if we weren’t stacking up “snake” pellets to create grotesque formations on sidewalk. #kidlitchat |
| 2:00 am | LaFabuliste: | I WANT A POPSICLE. Augh. #kidlitchat |
| 2:00 am | DDHearn: | @LaFabuliste I guess because, sadly, movie producers don’t want to see plain Janes on the silver screen. #kidlitchat |
| 2:00 am | dawnmetcalf: | RT @JanGangsei: #kidlitchat This whole chat’s making me want to don some flip-flops, chase fireflies and eat a Popscicle by a lake somewhere! |
| 2:00 am | bonnieadamson: | @JanGangsei Then our work here is done. #kidlitchat |
| 2:00 am | kdueykduey: | @PaulWHankins As it should be challenged. And I spent 25 years off grid, so for me mason jars=summer preserved…. #kidlitchat |
| 2:00 am | peg366: | @PaulWHankins Where in n. Michigan. I’m from Thumb. #kidlitchat |
| 2:01 am | kimberlyjsmith: | @kdueykduey Excellent! Glad to hear so many use 1st/3rd. Would think mc is 1POV? #kidlitchat |
| 2:01 am | auntieflamingo: | RT @KatApel: If anyone wants to check times/days (past transcripts) for #pblitchat check the blog. http://bit.ly/cSMhFU #kidlitchat |
| 2:01 am | KatApel: | You’re a crazy nutter! But thankyou!! RT @jimhill: Did I mention that @KatApel is my hero of the day? #kidlitchat |
| 2:01 am | KatGirl_Studio: | @kimberlyjsmith me too. I went to one of those parent co-op, alternative learning program, GATE school thingies #kidlitchat |
| 2:01 am | delzey: | @PaulWHankins “snakes!” those things were crazy! #kidlitchat |
| 2:01 am | kimberlyjsmith: | @dawnmetcalf This is my fear. #kidlitchat |
| 2:01 am | dshiplett: | @KatGirl_Studio Yep, our neighbor took photos. Here’s one: http://twitgoo.com/1435mx #kidlitchat |
| 2:01 am | dawnmetcalf: | @LaFabuliste I think your generalization is right. *sigh* Time to shake up the ol’ snowglobe! #kidlitchat |
| 2:01 am | LaFabuliste: | @DDHearn That, and moviemakers are mostly men. So of COURSE they want to see the normal guy get a fab girl. #kidlitchat |
| 2:01 am | kdueykduey: | @DDHearn It isn’t the producers. It’s the audiences.. #evensadder #kidlitchat |
| 2:02 am | dshiplett: | @dawnmetcalf Me, too! #kidlitchat |
| 2:02 am | delzey: | @LaFabuliste what flavor? i lived for root beer and bomb pops. #kidlitchat |
| 2:02 am | KatGirl_Studio: | @LaFabuliste I can’t eat popsicles unless they are chocolate #kidlitchat |
| 2:02 am | auntieflamingo: | @KatApel Thanks for the link to transcripts for #pblitchat I missed it on Sunday. #kidlitchat |
| 2:02 am | PaulWHankins: | @LaFabuliste If it’s really summer, you don’t want a popsicle. You want a Bombpop. RW + B. Softened, so you can slurp the fins. #kidlitchat |
| 2:02 am | DDHearn: | @kimberlyjsmith Our high school was designed to have no walls. Horrible mistake. #kidlitchat |
| 2:02 am | dshiplett: | @LaFabuliste Haha, beauty & the geek, right? #kidlitchat |
| 2:02 am | dawnmetcalf: | @kimberlyjsmith My fear involves scorpions. And most likely heights. This is a fear you can conquer, methinks! #kidlitchat |
| 2:02 am | kimberlyjsmith: | @KatGirl_Studio Planning to use it in a book someday. it was SO funky. We used these colored sticks to learn math. #kidlitchat |
| 2:02 am | LaFabuliste: | @delzey Gosh, any kind. It’s so hot here, I’d take a box of Bertie Botts Every Flavor Popsicles and hope for the best. #kidlitchat |
| 2:03 am | KatGirl_Studio: | @dshiplett wow! i have only seen them at the zoo. #kidlitchat |
| 2:03 am | KatApel: | @auntieflamingo The faceless lady is back. Don’t know WHY TweetDeck won’t show your face! I miss it. #pblitchat #kidlitchat |
| 2:03 am | LaFabuliste: | @dshiplett That, “According to Jim,” “King of Queens,” “Knocked Up”– the list could go on. #kidlitchat |
| 2:03 am | dshiplett: | I miss Schwan’s push-pops with Flinstone chars on them. My mom ordered them all the time for me growing up #kidlitchat |
| 2:03 am | suzannelilly: | @kdueykduey And your agent is okay with 2 POVs? It seems the only way to tell my current WIP. #kidlitchat |
| 2:03 am | kimberlyjsmith: | @dawnmetcalf LOL. Only know until you jump, right? Or put on your shoes, when it comes to scorpions (always clap em together! #kidlitchat |
| 2:03 am | DDHearn: | @kdueykduey Well…the producers THINK it’s the audience. I’d love to see some plain Janes get a nice guy…even a plain one! #kidlitchat |
| 2:03 am | dshiplett: | @KatGirl_Studio Yeah, I’m glad I didn’t see it face to face! *shudder* #kidlitchat |
| 2:03 am | PaulWHankins: | @peg366 From the pinky tip. We live in a state where it is appropriate to show people how to get to the Mackinaw Bridge (wink). #kidlitchat |
| 2:04 am | KatGirl_Studio: | @kimberlyjsmith we wrote stories and corrected them to learn English. Called everyone by their first names and had group… #kidlitchat |
| 2:04 am | suzannelilly: | @dshiplett Holy cow! Um, I mean alligator! #kidlitchat |
| 2:04 am | kdueykduey: | @kimberlyjsmith Mine is 2 stories, 200 years apart, 2 protagonists, first story causes second. It has made me NUTS and happy. #kidlitchat |
| 2:04 am | JanGangsei: | @BonnieAdamson Time to go root through the freezer, then . #kidlitchat |
| 2:04 am | dawnmetcalf: | @kimberlyjsmith ((shudder)) #kidlitchat |
| 2:04 am | dshiplett: | @DDHearn Amen to that!! #kidlitchat |
| 2:04 am | KatApel: | @dawnmetcalf No way!!! My fear is hairy huntsmen spiders and heights. Don’t WANT to conquer it. Healthier this way. #kidlitchat |
| 2:04 am | bonnieadamson: | Oops. No hashtag. I was taking my leave. Happy summer days, everyone! (and happy winter solstice to friends down under!) #kidlitchat |
| 2:04 am | KatGirl_Studio: | @kimberlyjsmith singing every Monday morning. also 20-30 field trips a year, no homework till 4th grade #kidlitchat |
| 2:04 am | dawnmetcalf: | @DDHearn @kdueykduey Read Cecil Castellucci’s PLAIN JANES? #kidlitchat |
| 2:04 am | dshiplett: | @kdueykduey Sounds divine! #kidlitchat |
| 2:05 am | KatApel: | @BonnieAdamson Thanks Bonnie! Glad I could stop by properly for a change. #kidlitchat |
| 2:05 am | DDHearn: | I better leave too. I’d like to get a little summer reading in before bed. #kidlitchat |
| 2:05 am | jimhill: | Enjoying the different summer memories being shared. #kidlitchat |
| 2:05 am | dshiplett: | @bonnieadamson G’nite! #kidlitchat |
| 2:05 am | LaFabuliste: | @dawnmetcalf Ooooh, I heard about that! Good? #kidlitchat |
| 2:05 am | dawnmetcalf: | @KatApel Oh, ick. You win! #kidlitchat |
| 2:05 am | kdueykduey: | @DDHearn I agree. The worship of celebrities will wreck us eventually… #kidlitchat |
| 2:05 am | dshiplett: | @jimhill Makes me miss the “good old days” a bit #kidlitchat |
| 2:05 am | KatGirl_Studio: | @dshiplett I almost hit quails while driving once it was really weird. They are our state bird and I have only seen them twice. #kidlitchat |
| 2:06 am | PaulWHankins: | Remember when we used to collect and count mosquito bites like our parents would count green stamps? #kidlitchat |
| 2:06 am | kimberlyjsmith: | @KatGirl_Studio Sounds familiar… and so Zen, right? Ah, the 70s. #kidlitchat |
| 2:06 am | suzannelilly: | @kimberlyjsmith I think I’ll try a few chapters in 1st & 3rd and see what happens. Other option is the dog’s POV. #kidlitchat |
| 2:06 am | dawnmetcalf: | @LaFabuliste *LOVE* CC’s stuff! (Even named a character after her!) #kidlitchat |
| 2:06 am | kimberlyjsmith: | @kdueykduey Ooh, sounds tres cool. Nuts and happy is good combo. #kidlitchat |
| 2:06 am | jimhill: | Lot of biking in my summers. Bike to the beach (ocean). Bike to the lake. Bike to friends’s house. Bike to work to caddy. #kidlitchat |
| 2:06 am | LaFabuliste: | @PaulWHankins You’re showing your age. I don’t know what a green stamp is… should I? #kidlitchat |
| 2:06 am | PaulWHankins: | And do you remember that one kid that used to wear green Toughskin shorts and smell like Avon’s Skin So Soft? Yep, that was me. #kidlitchat |
| 2:06 am | PuddleReader: | I write more letters to friends & family in the summer. Old habit from years of summer camp #kidlitchat |
| 2:06 am | KatGirl_Studio: | @kimberlyjsmith 70’s? I went there in the 90’s #kidlitchat |
| 2:07 am | dshiplett: | @KatGirl_Studio Yikes! Sounds like a quite the experience. #kidlitchat |
| 2:07 am | kdueykduey: | @suzannelilly The books have done well. #1 was a National Book Award finalist. Argument over. I won. #kidlitchat |
| 2:07 am | suzannelilly: | He doesn’t look pleased. RT @dshiplett: @KatGirl_Studio Yep, our neighbor took photos. Here’s one: http://bit.ly/aH2gUk #kidlitchat |
| 2:07 am | jimhill: | @dshiplett Agreed. I won’t let my son wander as much as I did. A lot fewer people on Cape Cod back then. #kidlitchat |
| 2:07 am | kimberlyjsmith: | @KatGirl_Studio OK, we didn’t have THAT part. 30 field trips? Worth the earthy-crunchy stuff. Mine in Colorado = VERY granola. #kidlitchat |
| 2:07 am | JanGangsei: | @kimberlyjsmith I went to an “open” elem school, too! We did have paper, but no walls. #kidlitchat |
| 2:07 am | KatApel: | @jimhill Summer memories: Cooking damper on a stick over a campfire. Works for winter too. That’s me in 3 days… Yummm. #kidlitchat |
| 2:08 am | kimberlyjsmith: | @KatGirl_Studio Seriously? I thought that was a flash in the pan. Which state? #kidlitchat |
| 2:08 am | kdueykduey: | @dawnmetcalf I haven’t read it. I like her a lot….so I should. #kidlitchat |
| 2:08 am | dshiplett: | @jimhill It’s sad to think that kids today can’t have as much freedom as I did as a child… #kidlitchat |
| 2:08 am | delzey: | even though they’re available year round, cola flavored icees on hot summer days. best enjoyed with comic books. #kidlitchat |
| 2:08 am | KatGirl_Studio: | @dshiplett they’re very cute birds. It was a whole little family of them running in a row just like on tv. #kidlitchat |
| 2:08 am | jimhill: | @PaulWHankins Oh, God. Toughskins. The fights I had with my Mom about those versus Levis. #kidlitchat |
| 2:09 am | suzannelilly: | @bonnieadamson Bye, and thanks for a great chat. #kidlitchat |
| 2:09 am | dawnmetcalf: | Treasuring the shared happy summer memories as opposed to thoughts of scorpions and hairy huntsman spiders. Night all! #kidlitchat |
| 2:09 am | kimberlyjsmith: | @suzannelilly Like it. Pet POV in a human world could be interesting. #kidlitchat |
| 2:09 am | dshiplett: | @KatGirl_Studio I always think of the birds walking across the road in “Bambi” #kidlitchat |
| 2:09 am | suzannelilly: | Goodnight everyone. Nice chatting with you. #kidlitchat |
| 2:09 am | KatApel: | @KatGirl_Studio We do miss you – and will keep missing you. So very sorry that our change in day took you out. #kidlitchat |
| 2:09 am | auntieflamingo: | @KatApel Aw, I’m glad you miss it and your not glad it’s gone. LOL When did it disappear? When I changed my pic a while ago? #kidlitchat |
| 2:10 am | PaulWHankins: | @jimhill I have a poem,”ToughSkin” if anyone would like a nostalgic piece. Had them in every color. Come June, they were shorts. #kidlitchat |
| 2:10 am | peg366: | @PaulWHankins You got that right. #kidlitchat |
| 2:10 am | LaFabuliste: | Gosh, kidlit, you’ve all made me want some fireflies, bare feet, and a game of catch with my dad as the sun sets. #kidlitchat |
| 2:10 am | jimhill: | @KatApel Sounds good, but what’s “damper”? #kidlitchat |
| 2:10 am | KatGirl_Studio: | @kimberlyjsmith CA SF Bay Area. The school was started in the 60’s i think and has grown huge since… #kidlitchat |
| 2:10 am | kdueykduey: | @jimhill This is sad. I had a free-range childhood, horses, foothills, etc. My only rule was “home before dark” At 7 yrs old. #kidlitchat |
| 2:10 am | kimberlyjsmith: | @KatGirl_Studio And now I feel old, btw. #kidlitchat |
| 2:10 am | KatGirl_Studio: | @kimberlyjsmith …When i was there there were only 30 kids per grad now there’s about 90-120 per grade. #kidlitchat |
| 2:10 am | carolgrannick: | Missed #kidlitchat because both computers down until 1 minute ago. High hopes for next Tuesday. |
| 2:11 am | suzannelilly: | Green stamps = mom currency of the 60s. RT @LaFabuliste: @PaulWHankins I don’t know what a green stamp is… should I? #kidlitchat |
| 2:11 am | jimhill: | @PaulWHankins Post it, I’d love to read it. #kidlitchat |
| 2:11 am | kimberlyjsmith: | @PaulWHankins I remember green stamps, but we’ve already established my age LOL. #kidlitchat |
| 2:11 am | suzannelilly: | @kdueykduey Yay, you! I’ll have to read them. Thanks for the advice. #1 #kidlitchat |
| 2:11 am | KatGirl_Studio: | @kimberlyjsmith sorry, I am only 26. When everyone talks about their kids it makes me feel very young. #kidlitchat |
| 2:12 am | KatApel: | @jimhill I was waiting for that… Simple Aussie bush fare. Basic scone dough served hot with Golden Syrup – or stew. #kidlitchat |
| 2:12 am | LaFabuliste: | I graduated in 2004, 38 in a class of 238. Now, class of 2010 had like, 500 students from same high school. Eep. #kidlitchat |
| 2:12 am | dshiplett: | @KatGirl_Studio Haha I know! I’m 26 as well. No kids yet, though DH and I are trying #kidlitchat |
| 2:12 am | jimhill: | @kdueykduey That was our rule too. My Mom would blow a train whistle that could be heard everywhere. Time to go when it blew. #kidlitchat |
| 2:12 am | kdueykduey: | @suzannelilly If the 2 vps thing boggles you, contact me. It probably won’t, you will develop a rhythm…but weird at first! #kidlitchat |
| 2:12 am | dshiplett: | Well, going to go work on my WIP & reminisce b4 bed. Thanks for the chat all! Hope to make it on time next week Gnite! #kidlitchat |
| 2:12 am | KatApel: | @jimhill When you come to visit the tree house & ride the kangaroos, you can cook damper on a stick. Simple things ARE the best! #kidlitchat |
| 2:13 am | LaFabuliste: | @KatGirl_Studio @dshiplett We need our own hashtag. #kidswritingkidlit #kidlitchat |
| 2:13 am | kimberlyjsmith: | @KatGirl_Studio Wow, pretty cool that concept is still in play. I kinda liked it. #kidlitchat |
| 2:13 am | KatGirl_Studio: | @LaFabuliste my high school had like 2000 people and our middle school had like 3000 #kidlitchat |
| 2:13 am | jimhill: | @KatApel Sounds good. No kangaroo rides? #kidlitchat |
| 2:13 am | KatGirl_Studio: | @dshiplett i have a cat who thinks I’m his mommy =^.^= #kidlitchat |
| 2:13 am | jimhill: | @KatApel Haha – you beat me to the ‘roo. #kidlitchat |
| 2:13 am | kdueykduey: | @jimhill A train whistle—lovely. #kidlitchat |
| 2:14 am | KatApel: | @jimhill Welll… If you can catch ‘em and saddle ‘em, and stay on ‘em… I’ll be laughin’!!!! #kidlitchat |
| 2:14 am | kimberlyjsmith: | @KatGirl_Studio Both sides, right? I’d love to feel young (ok, i FEEL young, but…) Guess that’s why I write MG. #kidlitchat |
| 2:14 am | KatGirl_Studio: | @kimberlyjsmith yes, they have won alot of awards and the principal was honored by the President when I was going there. #kidlitchat |
| 2:14 am | LaFabuliste: | Okay, I am the only one left in this sbux. I think it’s time to head home. Wonderful chat, all. Enjoy your fireflies & icepops. #kidlitchat |
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