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Tuesday, April 26, 2016 11:37:03 AM
Janni Simner wrote a blog post titled You Don’t Have To:
Janni said, "You don’t have to write fast You don’t have to write slow You don’t have to go in with a plan You don’t have to outline You don’t have to wait for the story to say where it wants to go You..." more
Saturday, April 23, 2016 3:00:43 PM
Janni Simner wrote a blog post titled Two Free Things–a Game and a Workshop:
Janni said, "The Huntsman: Winter’s Curse The Huntsman: Winter’s Curse is now available on PC and Mac–and the first chapter is free! I worked as scriptwriter on this game with Desert Owl Games. Download your copy of Book 1 here and give it a..." more
Friday, April 15, 2016 2:46:10 PM
Janni Simner wrote a blog post titled The Huntsman: Winter’s Curse:
Janni said, "What I’ve been doing these past months: working on the script for Desert Owl Games’ new release–The Huntsman: Winter’s Curse, a game set in the expanded universe of the forthcoming The Huntsman: Winter’s War! Winter is..." more
Saturday, April 2, 2016 3:35:06 PM
Janni Simner wrote a blog post titled Intensity, burnout, and regrouping:
Janni said, "Jaye Wells and Tiffany Trent both have posts up this week about writers and burnout. (I totally agree with Jaye Wells on the importance of writers having hobbies, once writing ceases to be one. Writing professionally is one of the things that led me..." more
Tuesday, March 29, 2016 2:04:29 PM
Janni Simner wrote a blog post titled Anniversaries:
Janni said, "Katherine Lawrence, December 11 1954 – March 25 2004 This Isn’t a Story I’m sorry, Katherine, but dying isn’t a story. I saw your careful outline, your well-researched notes: first the heroine died, then her adventures..." more
Saturday, March 19, 2016 4:44:06 PM
Janni Simner wrote a blog post titled Robert Frost, interactive fiction writer:
Janni said, " Two roads diverge in a yellow wood: – Take the one less traveled by – Take the one more traveled by – Take both Mirrored from Janni Lee Simner / Desert Dispatches."
Friday, March 11, 2016 3:24:56 PM
Janni Simner wrote a blog post titled Find me at the Tucson Festival of Books:
Janni said, "I’ll be at the Tucson Festival of Books from 1-5 Saturday (tomorrow!) at the Pima County Public Library’s Bookmobile near the Flandrau Science Center and Planetarium on the UA Mall. I’ll be talking about the Writer-in-Residence..." more
Wednesday, March 2, 2016 9:04:55 AM
Janni Simner wrote a blog post titled Talk with a writer—my March office hours:
Janni said, "As part of the new Writer-in-Residence program in Arizona’s libraries, I’ll have office hours at Tucson’s Main (Joel Valdez) library! In March those hours will be: Tuesdays: 10 am – noon Saturdays: 2 pm – 5 pm (no hours..." more
Tuesday, February 23, 2016 11:55:32 AM
Janni Simner wrote a blog post titled Where I’ll be for … the next three months!:
Janni said, "I’m honored to announce that I’ll be the Pima County Library‘s first Writer-in-Residence this March through May! This means, among other things, that I’ll have regular office hours a couple days a week when you can come to me..." more
Tuesday, December 15, 2015 9:15:20 AM
Janni Simner wrote a blog post titled And so we come to December:
Janni said, "How you know you live in the desert: when your child sees frost on the car in the morning and proclaims, “Snow!” In other news, what decidious leaves we have are falling from the trees. A good December to you all, whatever your own..." more
Monday, December 14, 2015 9:33:18 AM
Janni Simner wrote a blog post titled Light one candle …:
Janni said, "… and then another, and another, and another after that. On this final day (and after the final night) of Hanukkah: Light one candle for the strength we all need To never become our own foe And light one candle for those who are suffering The..." more
Friday, November 20, 2015 9:10:57 AM
Janni Simner wrote a blog post titled Perhaps we’ve heard this before:
Janni said, "And so it happened that a darkness came over the land. Some were consumed by the dark, and some were destroyed by the dark, and some fled the dark at great cost, escaping to tell the tale. Some too watched the darkness approach. “We must fight..." more
Monday, November 16, 2015 12:24:50 PM
Janni Simner wrote a blog post titled Writer’s block: short answers and long ones:
Janni said, "“What do you do about writers block?” It’s a question writers get asked often. It’s also a subject on which writers are tempted to go the hard truths route on when they answer. When I was asked this question, I used to say..." more
Saturday, November 14, 2015 3:56:28 PM
Janni Simner wrote a blog post titled On writing and so-called hard truths:
Janni said, "Today, as sometimes happens, I’ve been stumbling, unbidden, on writing posts on a theme. First, J.H. Moncrieff on the problems of writers telling one another that “Writers write”: “If nothing has ever stopped you from..." more
Saturday, November 14, 2015 3:56:28 PM
Janni Simner wrote a blog post titled That moment in every story when …:
Janni said, "… the story-universe informs its characters that the world is a dark and shadowed place, and demands that they fix it. And the characters are all, “Ummmmm …” Or is that just me? Mirrored from Janni Lee Simner / Desert..." more
Friday, October 30, 2015 1:07:55 PM
Janni Simner wrote a blog post titled Join me for my hometown con!:
Janni said, "Aka TusCon 42. I’ll be there this weekend and hope some of you will, too. The con is at the Hotel Tucson City Center at 475 N Granada Ave in Tucson. Here are some of the specific places you can find me! Friday, 7 p.m. Meet the Guests Ballroom..." more
Monday, October 12, 2015 12:08:19 PM
Janni Simner wrote a blog post titled Is Star Wars really better than Twilight?:
Janni said, "An article on how Twilight-hate is part of the larger picture of teen girl hate in our society, something I’ve been aware of for a while now: “For many people, the fact that teenage girls like something — whether that something is..." more
Monday, October 12, 2015 9:44:18 AM
Janni Simner wrote a blog post titled Find me at the Humboldt County Children’s Author Festival:
Janni said, "From October 15-17 I’ll be at the Humboldt County Author Festival. I’m excited to be visiting schools Thursday and Friday—and I’ll also be part of a public signing with all the other Festival authors on Saturday. If you’re..." more
Friday, September 18, 2015 11:04:18 AM
Janni Simner wrote a blog post titled Writing, writing, writing, writing:
Janni said, "Dear Protagonist and Her Fearless Band of Followers Friends, Wait, what? You want to defeat the giant killer scorpion WITHOUT killing it? No, no. it’s totally doable. I … I like the way you think. Giant killer scorpions have feelings..." more
Thursday, July 23, 2015 11:48:33 AM
Janni Simner wrote a blog post titled Writing, writing, writing:
Janni said, "That lovely moment in the story when a phone rings, and you let your character answer it so that both of you can find out who’s on the other end. Really, knowing where the story is going before you get there is overrated.1 Meanwhile: Dear..." more
Monday, July 13, 2015 1:22:39 PM
Janni Simner wrote a blog post titled Diversity and the stories we tell:
Janni said, "Recently, in my search for diverse picture books and especially for books where my child could see other children who look like her in the illustrations, I came upon Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes. This beautifully written and illustrated..." more
Friday, July 10, 2015 9:52:27 AM
Janni Simner wrote a blog post titled Catch me on Arizona Spotlight today!:
Janni said, "I speak with Mark Mclemore today on Arizona Spotlight! Listen here, or catch me on Tucson’s KUAZ 89.1 at 8:30 a.m. or 6 p.m. today (Friday) or 5 p.m. tomorrow (Saturday). You can hear me reading from Bones of Faerie there, too. And this..." more
Thursday, July 2, 2015 10:48:12 AM
Janni Simner wrote a blog post titled Reviews (of Finding Your Sense of Place) and Appearances (with the Pima Public Library):
Janni said, "Two reviews of Finding Your Sense of Place! Katherine Cowley: ” I highly recommend it for an exploration of setting and emotion.” (Check out her post on Emotional Beats in Fiction, as well.) Janet Lee Carey at Dreamwalks: ” These..." more
Tuesday, June 30, 2015 11:44:16 AM
Janni Simner wrote a blog post titled Today’s dose of good feeling and general inspiration:
Janni said, "I came upon this embedded into a five-year-old blog post of mine. Some things one doesn’t stop needing to hear: If you want to cry as well as smile, this longer version ends with a Jim Henson tribute. How many years has it been? (25, says..." more
Friday, June 10, 2016 3:48:00 PM
Janni Simner wrote a blog post titled Catch me at the Tucson Eastside Barnes and Noble Saturday, plus Library and Huntsman game news:
Janni said, "Hope you’re all having a good summer! I finished my residency at the Pima County Public Library at the end of May. Before leaving entirely, I blogged about my time there: Libraries remain a place of refuge. Some writers came to me nervous..." more