Six Compelling Reasons to Come to the 2024 SCBWI Europolitan in Cologne
Are you an illustrator, writer, or translator who works on books for kids? Six reasons why it’s worth your time to come to Cologne for the 2024 Europolitan. Cachet, Community, Contacts, Craft, Context, Challenge, and Cologne. 🙂
7 Insights from the SCBWI Europolitan Conference in Belgium
This beautiful building is the musical instrument museum in Brussels, Belgium. What is the SCBWI Europolitan? A chance to meet people who live in Europe and write for kids in English. In 2017, the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators Europolitan Conference was in Belgium. In 2024, it will be in Cologne, Germany. Here’s […]
Join me over at SCBWI Germany + Austria: I’m blogging about doodling
My doodle for the SCBWI Europolitan Conference in Belgium. ©Laurel Decher, 2017. Hanging out with all of the illustrators at the 2017 SCBWI Europolitan Conference in Belgium must have rubbed off on me. I created the doodle above on the train ride home. Just what I needed, a quick way to ‘revisit’ the conference in […]
Writing Gratitude Countdown (2) The Gift of Permission
This is the second post in my Writing Gratitude Countdown. It’s my way of re-discovering the richness of the creative life. (Find all the posts: 1. The Gift of Attention , 2. The Gift of Permission, and 3. The Gift of Hospitality, and 4. The Gift of Feedback, 5. The Gift of a Deadline.) 2. […]
Solve writing jitters the same way you solve speaking Jitters
Writing jitters mean that what you are writing is making you nervous or uncertain. Jitters go away when you move to let the energy out. Then you can come back to your project, refreshed, and start again.
Writing Process Blog Tour
It’s fun to follow the epic and perhaps infinite Writing Process Blog Tour backwards. My favorite description is by Bethany Hegedus. “[T]his collection of blog posts offers tips of the trade, confessions on what makes a writer’s process unique.” Thanks to Jenni Enzor who tagged me for the Tour. Jenni’s a member of the Society […]