by DianneSalerni | Mar 2, 2011 | First Impressions
I’d like to offer a big thank you to Marisa Hopkins at Living the Creative Life, for being brave enough to share a page of her manuscript for First Impressions feedback! After you’ve read my impressions below, pop over to Mainewords, where Marcy Hatch will also be...
by DianneSalerni | Feb 28, 2011 | WIP, writing
My reading on various blogs – and Tweets and FB posts – would suggest that some writers suffer from procrastination. They find it difficult to force themselves to sit down and write, and I remember a time I used to have the same problem.However, in the past year or...
by DianneSalerni | Feb 25, 2011 | Kindle, teaching
Technically, they’re not supposed to be there.Of course, neither are cell phones, and we all know half the students have cell phones in their pockets or their backpacks. I insist my daughters bring their phones to school, in fact, just so we can coordinate after...
by DianneSalerni | Feb 23, 2011 | WIP
Meet the Riker Demi Coach Electric Automobile, which my character Ann Henry drives in my WIP. Awesome, isn’t it?Did you know that electric cars predated gasoline-powered cars, and that if industry had gone a slightly different way, American cars might have been...
by DianneSalerni | Feb 21, 2011 | skiing, writing
I had a chance to try out my new electric ski boot warmers last weekend when my husband and I took our daughters (plus two extra teenagers) skiing at Bear Creek Mountain Resort in Macungie, PA. First of all, I have to say the boot warmers were the bomb. Now I need to...
