Rena J. Traxel is a writer, a poet, a humourist and novice photographer. She is currently working on her debut novel for tweens. In the meantime enjoy Book Review Mondays, Poetry Wednesdays, Flash Fridays and of course posts on her writing life.
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*If you here to critique my blog click here. This is my second week of sharing tips, tricks, and interesting posts that I’ve found during my weekly blog travels. This week I'm sharing cool apps, good laughs, writing challenges, and helpful posts to get you writing! Apps: Sick of
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Jan. 30A black and white bird lands on my fence. He hops then looks in my window. I get up to watch him. He hops again then flies away. I grab my camera and head outside. I look for him but find this nest instead. Jan. 31Abandoned nest in the treesCovered in snow and frostNot an ideal place to liveB
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Today I open my blog up to you! I want to know what works and what doesn't work for you on this blog. Let me know me your thoughts in the comment section below. If you want sign up for this blogfest click here!Even if you aren't a participant in the blogfest I would still like to hear your thoughts.
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Yesterday, I received my second blog award the Liebster award from Jennifer Young who I met through the 12x12 in 2012 a picture book challenge. The Liebster award (a German word meaning favourite) is for those bloggers, like me, who have less then 200 followers. The award is designed to help br
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Miranda Paul, children’s author and editor, is holding a Mix-It Up Writing Contest (click to go to Miranda’s blog to find out more). I decided to write a fairy tale news article based off the fairy tale Hansel and Gretel. Check out my story below! Totenkinder: sweet old lady or cold hearted murder?
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The Very Cranky Bear by Nick BlandScholastic Canada, Ltd, 2011: Board BookIn the Jingle, Jangle, Jungle...A moose, a loin, a zebra, and a sheep are in search for a place to play. They stumble upon a cave with a sleeping bear and now the moose, the loin, the zebra, and the sheep must come up with a w
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Time Camera by Simon RoseTradewind, 2011: 8-11“It worked.”“What do you mean?”“The camera. I think we’ve gone back in time to the day my mom died.” Jake and Lydia come across a mysterious camera in the basement of Lydia’s mothers office. They soon discover the camera is more than just a camera
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In honour of Family Literacy Day in Canada, I’m going to share a secret with you. Are you ready? Here it goes: when I was a young child, I couldn’t read very well. I struggled and I struggled. Thankfully I didn’t have to struggle alone!My parents tried to teach me phonetically (this method does work
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Come back next Friday and help me out by voting on which photos I should use for my business cards, profile picture, and the back of my chapbook.
Boxes and boxes of paper is this what my life has become? Every word, I’ve ever thought to write, is scribbled on a scrap somewhere. I shift through the mess picking out the gems. They are like treasure dredged up from a sunken ship. Draft after draft I pull from the wreckage. Sort them and file the
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