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Story Musing #2

July 9, 2018

Okay, I’ve hit 5,000 words! For Camp NaNo so far, I think I’ve been doing…okay. (FYI, I changed my goal from 30,000 words to 25,000 words) I have been writing about Johnny the Fairy Godbrother, and right now one of my characters is yelling at everybody else that they shouldn’t be hiding and that they…

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Filed Under: Homeschool, Literacy, NaNoWriMo, Stories Tagged With: homeschool, NaNoWriMo, story, story musing, Thinking

100 Word Story: Truly

June 28, 2018

The night is dark, but not to her. With her thick black fur and blinding white teeth, she is one with the night. Everybody feared her, with her black paws that hid long dagger nails, and her yellow-green eyes that could blaze through the night. But was she truly scary? Was her teeth so violent? …

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Short Story: The Squirrel Olympics

May 17, 2018

“Hey! I saw that worm first!” Stiff yelled to Bluey, flying down to the leafy path to join his sister. “Stiff! Shut your beak! I’m trying to watch the squirrel Olympics!” Beaky retorted, gobbling a piece of caramel worm. “No! Stiff! This is my worm!” Bluey screamed as Stiff tried to take the juicy worm…

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NaNoWriMo 2017

November 18, 2017

NaNoWriMo started! I wrote a version of “Deck the Halls” for it. 🙂   ‘Tis the season for NaNoWriMo What’s your word count goal Will you achieve or drastically fail Write write write write write Now eat lots and lots of snacks Sugar hyper, write write write Now into week two Working on plot plot…

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Filed Under: Homeschool, Literacy Tagged With: book, NaNoWriMo, novel, story, Winter holidays, Writing

Short Story-The Strange Fruit

December 13, 2016

Once in a town called Altoville, there lived a small family. There was one boy and one girl, and they lived in a small red house with gingerbread trim. When they first moved in, they were looking around in their backyard and they saw a strange tree. The tree had strange fruit growing on it….

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Hi! I’m Emma! I love to bake, eat (anything gluten free that doesn’t taste like cardboard), craft, write, play cello, sing, do calligraphy and play with my dog, Cali (She’s on Instagram now!) Yeah, my bedroom is also actually the cupboard under the stairs, just like Harry Potter 🙂

 

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