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Making NaNoWriMo a Family Affair

If you have kids, you may be struggling with balancing your creative life with your responsibilities as a parent. Today, writer and mom Dr. Jennifer Harder shares how she’s managed to make creative writing time into a family activity:

A Holy Grail for many parents is that elusive activity you can do with your kids that you all equally enjoy. All too often, we settle for fun the kids can do while we adults look on, applaud, or otherwise support from the sidelines. We find activities that challenge our miniature selves but leave us adults stagnant. At the heart of childhood memories are shared experiences, and sometimes we adults get in a bad habit of not really sharing in the experience at all!

I learned of NaNoWriMo and its Young Writers Program in November 2017 when my son’s elementary school principal proposed it as a challenge to keep our then-second grader from getting himself into some boredom-based mischief. The idea came a bit out of the blue for me: You want my 7-year-old to write a what? In how long? I remember all of the ways that he and I struggled to subdue his inner editor, to unleash his creativity, and to learn to value the process of creating something that was utterly and completely his, all the while suppressing my urge to mom it up. It was hard.  

But then, seemingly out of nowhere, it was fun.

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This is so wholesome

#ctgudtresrzfd #cats #lov #q

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Me to american animation: I know your stories are great buy why does your animation suck so bad?

American animation: We have to create simplified characters to make the movement faster and more creative and interesting.

Me glancing at Japan: 

Me: k.

#animation #important #q

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this is a straight couple. it’s straight. you’re in a heterosexual relationship. there is nothing remotely “queer” about this in the slightest whatsoever. jesus h christ

#important #q

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#they look happy #q

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#christianity #q

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Isabelle has a message for her enemies.

#isabelle #q #long live the mayor

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Great thread about online moderation. Source / link in the last tweet.

#tumblr #hellsite #q #educational

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Listen, Twilight could have been completely solved if they had just chosen a college over the Grand Forks high school. Like? Y’all look 18 forever? I know college seniors who look 16, it’s cool. They don’t eat? Man we’re poor too, y’all don’t see me eat ever. Y’all glitter in the sunlight? It’s cool I went to a rave once too, that glitter shit it hard to get off. Like c’mon. Why would you wanna be in high school for a milenia anyways.

#akjnvbkajebve #twilight #q

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baz is like, significantly more of a dumbass than simon i think. like simon’s just like “okay baz is my boyfriend now. i’m not gonna kill him and that’s that” meanwhile baz is like “hm…snow and i…we engaged in romantic activity…interesting…what a shame we’re still enemies…i’ll still have to kill him…i will kill him…i’m going to tell him all this…that’s a great idea” like shut the fuck up baz you melodramatic idiot. i love you but you are so fucking angsty and dumb

#baz pitch #an elegant dumbass #snowbaz #carry on #q

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Twinkle twinkle little star ✨✨

#snowbaz #this is pretty ejskbvjsbvjd #carry on #q

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when i watch old movies i’m constantly surprised by how much acting has improved. not that the acting in the classics is bad, it’s just often kind of artificial? it’s acting-y. it’s like stage acting.

it took some decades for the arts of acting and filmmaking to catch up to the potential that was in movies all along; stuff like microexpressions and silences and eyes, oh man people are SO much better at acting with their eyes than they were in the 40′s, or even the 70′s.

the performances we take for granted in adventure movies and comedies now would’ve blown the critics’ socks off in the days of ‘casablanca’.

#neat #educational #film and tv #q

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i ! love ! simon ! snow !

#this is so pretty sksnsksnkd #simon snow #carry on #q

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The Mage: thank you for agreeing to meet with me today

Simon: I didn’t, you just walked into my room and started talking

#mamaksndm #carry on #simon snow #q

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I’m a sucker for characters who see troubled kids in dangerous situations and basically go “they need parents, guess that’s me now”

#mood #q

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Simon in fluffy coat~

Drawing nie hair is really fun 😁

As always tell me what you think about it and if you like follow for more 😊

#carry on #simon snow #q