It's Banned Books Week

It's Banned Books Week. Last year I posted about a banned book every day all week long. This year I'm joining the other authors at Book View Cafe in our own nose-thumbing exercise. There will be blog entries all week long. Also, we're posting pictures of ourselves reading banned books. Join us. Post your picture on your blog. On twitter. On facebook.

Let's get this party started.

So many banned books on my favorites shelf. So little time.

Erotica author Marissa Day writes about "50 Shades of Burning Books," the burning of 50 Shades of Grey.

Science Fiction/Fantasy author Sherwood Smith writes about the history of book-burning in "Put Her In the Fire!"

And our photo meme is launched on facebook. "Nothing comes between me and my Mark Twain..."

I'll be posting links all week.

Join us.

Have fun.

Thumb your nose at book-banning!

Cross-posted at planetpooks.

Jenny Crusie's Collage System & Whiteboard

New York Times Best Selling Author Jennifer Crusie's approach to finding her plot and working out the details is the most unusual I've run across, and fascinating and pretty!

Read, look and marvel.

Collage as Prewriting and Inspiration -- The Explanation

Collages for Various Books -- The Illustration

Her Whiteboard System of Outlining

WEEK ONE HOMEWORK

1. Take yourself on an Artist’s

     Date.

2. Try “morning pages.”

3. Read the “first pages.”

4. Use your “capture device.”

5. Watch Witness .

6. Be a writer.

Got questions?  Ask!  (Or email me.)  And don't forget to sign up for email delivery of this blog.

Go write something!

It's September, and that means...

Tonight is my first class of the fall semester, and tomorrow morning I have another. If you are signed up for classes, have googled and tracked me down and found me here--tell me!

And welcome!

It's going to be a great semester, and you're going to write a novel.

Ready? Set? Go!