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One of the things I've learned about myself recently is that I'm not much for movies. This became apparent with the advent of the...

Dawn Lairamore Matthew MacNish One of the magical things about belonging to a group blog is the fellowship you find...

Disclaimer: this is a deeply personal post for me, and it may be my last at Project Mayhem for some time, as I take a hiatus to reevaluat...

I wrote this post a while back on my personal blog. I called it Storytelling , but really it should have been called How do You Know When...

Okay, this should hopefully be the last post in my series about critique and advanced use of MS Word. You can find the previous posts here: ...

There are lots of ways to critique a novel, most of them pretty useful. But ... they do not always have clearly defined definitions among th...

This was the first book I finished this year, and the first of Kelly Barnhill's novels I've read. Before I get to my thoughts, he...

A couple of weeks ago, we here at Project Mayhem started discussing the possibility of having a holiday gift giving guide, with different ca...

Technically, the title of this book is actually The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making, which is a great, if so...

I'm not sure the many-armed statue of Shiva is the best image to represent this post, but it's important to use open licensed ima...

One of the things I love most about reading Middle Grade literature is how nuanced I find it often is, especially when it comes to tone. Ta...

Watch the video. If you're a young kid, or the parent of a young kid, be aware there's some implied violence, and one semi-foul wo...

So last weekend I took my kids to Star Trek, Into Darkness, which, in spite of some huge writerly no-nos (sorry J.J. Abrams, yo...

photo is from Wikimedia Commons Happy Friday, Mayhemers! My family is driving down to Orlando this weekend, and then spending three days...

This image doesn't necessarily have that much to do with Middle Grade First Lines (it's a photo of a letter Gandhi wrote), but wi...

This is just a stock photo of the Track Changes function in Microsoft Word. I don't actually use it much myself early on in revision, ev...

I had originally just planned to review my first viewing of The Hobbit, but after Friday's tragic events in Connecticut, I felt I ha...

I'm on vacation, but I'm writing hard, shopping hard, cooking hard, and resting hard, so this is all I have for you today, dear re...

That's my kid, Madi . She's in sixth grade now. I'm pretty sure she's reading Rick Riordan there. She's been going stro...

Document Map is a setting in Word that lets you navigate around a document quickly, and view the layout of a document at a glance. This is e...