...cool rules for writing

BIG thanks to everyone who did the writers oath with me and the ones who put it on their blog. now from my new book writing magic: creating stories that fly by gail carson levine heres the really cool rules for writing.

1. The best way to write better is to write more.
2. The best way to write better is to write more.
3. The best way to write better is to write more.
4. The best way to write more is to write whenever you have five minutes and wherever you find a chair and a pen and paper or your computer.
5. Read! Most likely you don’t need this rule. If you enjoy writing, you probably enjoy reading. The payoff for this pleasure is that reading books shows you how to write them.
6. Reread! There’s nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become part of you, in a way that words in a book you’ve read only once can’t.
7. Save everything you write, even if you don’t like it, even if you hate it. Save it for a minimum of fifteen years. I'm serious. At that time, if you want to, you can throw it out, but, even then don't discard you writing lightly.

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ok... theres the cool rules for writing! im gonna try to be a good rule keeper and i hope youll be one with me.

…hugs from lenny

...writers oath

yippee i won $25! i got real lucky and won it on on miss candaces contest to help get money for that really neat charity joy 2 the world. it was a gift card from that nice miss tahereh and it was so neat that she donated it. the card was for stuff at amazon. yikes! theres a zillion books there. how could i ever know which one to pick. after looking at so many books my eyes got crossed. ha ha. finally i picked a really cool one called for boys only: the biggest, baddest book ever. its full up of all kinds of of real neat stuff and im gonna use some of it for some posts another time. but for now i want to tell you about the other book i got. its called writing magic: creating stories that fly. wow! stories that fly! how cool is that! i love it! when it got here i jumped real quick into reading it cause i want to be a really good writer and i know i could learn a lot from it. in the very first part theres a writers oath and i stopped right there and made a promise to do just what it says. then i thought it could be really nice to share it with my blogger writer friends and see if they want to do the oath with me. i put it right up at the very top of the page. so if you want to do the oath you could just say it or you could put it on your blog or you could put it by your computer or wherever you mostly do your writing. if you got here and youre not a writer its ok cause you could just do a oath to do the best you can at whatever you do. next week im gonna share some cool rules for writing right out of my new book. for this week im asking...who wants to be my oath partner? i hope its you!

…hugs from lenny

...heeeerrreees gunther!

one person guessed what gunther looks like and thats miss candice because she knows i love animals and theyre in all my stories. yay for miss candice!

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Here's what Fletch, the Grellow Bird, saw when he saw Gunther.

Fletch took a chance and poked his head out of the hole in the rocks. He gulped when he saw the strange, scary looking beast. It was the size of a big sheep, had long, thick, shaggy white fur that hung all the way down to the ground, a stubby, little white tail and big black eyes. On its head was a pair of big, grey horns, like cow horns, except these were curved backwards and looked just like bicycle handles. Under its chin was the strangest thing, a short, pointed white beard. Fletch was sure, in his whole life, he had never, ever seen an animal with a beard or any animal that looked quite as scary as this one. The shaggy beast pawed the ground and said, "Who are you and watcha doin' so high up on my mountain? Naaaaaaa a good idea! Naaaaaaa a good idea at all!"

this blog fest was soooo much fun! thanks miss jen!

...smiles and hugs from lenny

…miss jens guess what my character looks like blog fest

Gunther was born and lived on Apple Mountain his whole life. He loved the fresh air, blowing, white snow and the beauty of the mountain. He went down to the valley only when he ran out of food. He stayed there just long enough to eat a good meal and fill his big, canvas packs with food and staples for himself and his friends. Although he was friendly and greeted everyone, he didn’t stay very long and was always happy to go back to his home on the mountain.

When he was young, Gunther was wild, carefree and really stubborn. He butted heads with just about everyone. A lot of times, because of his own carelessness, he almost lost his life to the mountain. Now that he was older, he was smarter and more careful. He was strong and sure footed and, even though he walked with lots of confidence over the rocky paths and close to the scary drop-offs, he never forgot the mountain holds many secrets and hidden dangers.

When he was just a kid, Gunther’s mom taught him how to yodel and he loved it. He stopped doing it when he was a teenager because all of his friends laughed at him and said he sounded like a sick cow. Now that he was a grown up he didn’t care about what anyone thought of his yodeling. He had a deep, gruff voice, but when he yodeled, the sweetest, tones flowed out of his mouth. He yodeled while he climbed the rocky, jagged hills and walked the dangerous paths of the mountain. His voice echoed down into the valley, rose up and wound itself around the rocky hills and icy peaks and bounced cheerfully off the top of the mountain.

what do you think gunther looks like? come back tomorrow and see. : )

click here to go see who’s in the blog fest

…hugs from lenny

...go fly a kite!

i love kites!!!

they look so cool with all those bright colors floating and flapping around way up in the sky. can you believe kites been around for 3000 years! wow! thats a really long time. way back then they got used for fishing, wars, magic and lots of other things.

now their mostly for fun. you can get all kinds of kites. theres stunt kites, fighting kites, racing kites and lots of other ones in all kinds of sizes, bright colors and every shape you could ever think of. all over the world theres kite days, contests and festivals. zillions of people are flying kites and having lots of fun doing it.

the most fun time for me was when me and my brother andrew made our own kite. we got some old pieces of wood, a used up old white shower curtain that had neat swirlies on it and some old rags we tied up together for a tail. everyone laughed and said that big ol ugly lookin kite wasnt ever gonna fly. but andrews a good builder and he dosnt give up so easy on something he believes he could do and i just knew he could get that kite flying. so, we just kept changing it up a little after every time it crashed and that was a bunch of times. ugh! one day on another try i held it up high over my head and andrew ran as fast as he could pulling that long string over his head and while everyone was laughing at us that kite just jumped right out of my hands and went up up up into the sky. WOWEEEE! it was soooo exciting! it was bigger than any kite i ever saw and its long raggy tail was wagging real proud in the wind like it was saying ha ha told you so to all the ones who had been laughing. me and andrew held tight on that string together. we let out a bunch more string and watched that kite go higher and higher in the sky til it got so high it didnt look like an old shower curtain anymore and looked like a big beautiful white bird gliding way high up on the wind. it was the best and most beautiful kite in the whole wide world. since that time i got lots of store bought kites in lots of pretty colors and shapes and had lots of fun flying them. but i just gotta tell you the best one ever was that ugly white shower curtain kite me and andrew built and flew together.

have some fun! ...go fly a kite!

…hugs from lenny

super doc!

i had to go to the doctor the other day. dont worry, im not sick or anything like that. im doing great! i was just doing what you call follow up stuff that i do every couple of months. mostly people dont like going to the doctor but i love it. yep i really do! thats cause shes a SUPER DOC!

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whats a super doc? im gonna tell you but watch out cause when i do youre gonna be sooooo jealous and wish she could be your doctor too. ok heres goes.

she makes me feel sooooo special just like im her only patient. i know shes got lots more and i bet she treats them special too but i just like feeling im the most special.

she spends lots and lots of time with me and is a really good listener. she doesnt just want to know about how im feeling in my body and in my mind but she wants to know about everything thats going on in my life and she likes hearing about it.

she writes down everything i need to remember and gives me the paper to take home so i wont forget what i need to do to take good care of myself.

she talks to all my family and other doctors and people who are helping so everyone knows what’s going on and can help together.

shes a big support for me and for all my family. shes always there if i need her.

she answers my emails but I dont send many cause i know shes real busy. sometimes she sends email pictures of her dogs and cat. she sent one of her cat getting a bath and it was soooo funny.

shes got a really nice smile and a neat sense of humor and a really cool laugh. she makes me feel soooo good when im with her.
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youd think thats enough but for me heres what makes her an even more extra special doctor.

she gives the biggest and best hugs and you know how much i love getting and giving hugs. if you dont just go look at my how bout a hug post. hugs feel soooo good and are real healing.

when she knows im coming to see her she brings her two dogs lefty and scout to the office for me to play with while im waiting cause she knows how much i love animals. theyre little lap dogs and make waiting soooooo much fun.

and best of all…she loves me!!!
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wow! shes a SUPER DOC for sure! now arent you jealous? told you so! ha ha!

… hugs from lenny