Hello Writing Community! We are delighted to announce our Second Official Bluesky *** #MSWL Day *** February 26, 2026. 🎉🎉🎉 Agents + editors can post what they ✨wish✨ they had in their inboxes; writers can find their next best fit for querying. Learn more: manuscriptwishlist.com/2025/01/the-...

My intuition and imagination guide my writing and I trust the process. #Writers #WritingLife #AmWriting #KidlitWriter

YES!! Sign up for this great workshop! I was in it last Spring! It includes being in the Write Here Write Now Wrinting Sprints group! #Writers #WritingLife #AmWriting #AmRevising #KidLitWriter

Do you feel not suave? Well, you're not alone. saraharonson.substack.com/p/not-suave

I am watching this today. #AmLearning #Writing #AmWritingKidLit #WorkForHire #WritingLife

I can start small and build from there. #Writers #WritingLife #AmWriting #KidLitWriter

WRITING QUOTE -- "I think the most important part of storytelling is tension. It's the constant tension of suspense that in a sense mirrors life, because nobody knows what's going to happen three hours from now." ~ ~ Richard Condon

#Writers #KidLitWriters Are you an 'Insider' with @kirstenwlarson.bsky.social writers.kirstenwlarson.com/b/insiders

"Creativity comes from accepting that you're not safe, from being absolutely aware, and from letting go of control. It's a matter of seeing everything - even when you want to shut your eyes." ~~ Madeleine L'Engle

Writing is progress, not pressure.

My writing skills improve with every draft I write.

"My writing knows more than I know. What a writer must do is listen to her book. It might take you where you don’t expect to go. That’s what happens when you write stories. You listen and you say ‘a ha,’ and you write it down. . . " ~~ Madeleine L'Engle

I have all the creativity I need to be the writer I want to be. #IWriteKidlit

WRITING QUOTE - The writer who breeds more words than he needs is making a chore for the reader who reads. ~ Dr. Seuss #Writers #AmWriting #Kidlit #MyWritingLife

If you’ve ever thought about writing true stories for kids, Telling It True shows you how. From picture books to YA, magazines, and the educational market, this how-to guide walks you through the full process. 👉 Get your copy: https://bit.ly/4sY8OrI

The deadline to apply - is February 9th -- click the link in their bio for all of the details. @boydsmills.bsky.social

We're doing it again....! 🙂.png FREE online half-day mini writing retreat: Sunday, Feb 8, 10am-2pm EST. This event is open to anyone at all; no experience required. Register with me at [email protected]

I love love love talking craft! And @kirstenwlarson.bsky.social is a fabulous interviewer as well as writer!

I embrace the creative process with joy and curiosity.

“My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see.” ― Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim

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OUR 2026 SCHOLARSHIP WINDOW IS NOW OPEN! Boyds Mills offers scholarships each year thanks to the generous support of our community! Apply now! 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗪𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗼𝘄 January 22 – February 9 Click the link in our bio for all the details!

Writing is a talent I am blessed with.

“Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.” ― Ray Bradbury

“Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.”― Meg Cabot

A great writer lives within me! I know it! I feel it! I write like it!!

I refuse to be paralyzed by the size and scope of my project. I am getting this book done one step at a time.

“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.” ― Pablo Picasso

“Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.” ― Philip José Farmer #Writers #WritingQuotes #AmWriting

Day by day I get better and better at planning my plots! #Writers #AmWriting

#Writers #AmWriting #KidlitWriters @saraharonson.bsky.social 's weekly newsletter is SO worth the read! It is inspiring and motivating and most of the time she says out loud [ in the newsletter] what you are probably thinking! Subscribe!

When I get out of the way, the words flow easily to the page. #Writers #WritingLife #AmWriting #KidlitWriter

“A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.” ― Caroline Gordon. #Writers #WritingLife #AmWriting #KidLit

#Writers #Amwriting #KidLit #WritingLife-- These mini online writing retreats that @christebbetts.bsky.social & @saraharonson.bsky.social lead, are Great!! Check out this one - Happening on Sunday Feb. 8th See you there! 📝 ✍️

“There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.” ― Beatrix Potter

My imagination overflows with great writing ideas!

In 1 week, I go live online via @boydsmills.bsky.social with all you need to know to get out on submission with a #kidlit or #yalit ms.: preparation, strategies, resources, case studies, query letter basics, myth-busting, handouts. Questions, a recording. $59 boydsmills.org/workshop/suc...

Best Nonfiction of 2025: A Roundup of Lists tinyurl.com/yy2c5vzu #TLSky #SchoolLibrary #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians #TLSkyChat @fuse8.bsky.social @ncte.org @ala-booklist.bsky.social @slupodcast.bsky.social @slj.com @thehornbook.bsky.social @txlib.bsky.social @scifri.bsky.social

"You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finestteacher of how to write." ~ Annie Proulx

When the writer in me connects with the reader in me, magic happens! #WritersLife #Writing #Amwriting #Kidlit

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THEATER CAMP FOR WRITERS> Join us April 16-19 on the Boyds Mills (recent name change from The Highlights Foundation) campus in Honesdale, PA! No performance or theater experience required — this is a practical, craft-driven writing workshop for anyone! More info at theatercampforwriters,com

I am a talented writer who has valuable stories to share. #WritersAffirmation #AmWriting #WritingLife #Write

"I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself." — Alice Hoffman #Writers #AmWriting #WritingLife

I pay attention to my surroundings for inspiration all around me. #ThisWritersLife #Writers #WritingLife #AmWriting

"After a while, the characters I’m writing begin to feel real to me. That’s when I know I’m heading in the right direction." ~Alice Hoffman #ThisWritersLife #AmWritingkidlit #Writers

#WritingCommunity #5amWritersClub #6amWritersClub #AmWriting #Fiction #MoonLitGetaway #LitMag #WritingQuotes #OpenForSubmissions #CallForSubmissions