De wraak van Deedee on iTunes De wraak van Deedee, the Dutch e-version of Deedee’s Revenge is now available in the iTunes store.
Categories: A Bit of Everything
Tagged: Books, Children's Books, De wraak van Deedee, e-boek, ebooks
Mina Witteman – author | editor | teacher of creative writing
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Happy to announce the Dutch e-version of my debut ‘De wraak van Deedee’. Now available at Smashwords $ 4.99 Soon available at iTunes – Kobo – Amazon and more, too!
Without this rock there would be no first book in the Warriors of the Sun series. We so often base our knowledge on the journeys of Odysseus, we pull strength from the adventures of Thor and wisdom from the musings of Vishnu, but we rarely quench our thirst with the wealth of stories that spring from the first peoples of North America. When I searched Dutch libraries, I couldn’t find a single book that showed Dutch children the true cultures of the United States and Canada. It urged me to write the Warrior Of the Sun series. Research for the series brought me to the lands and tribes of North America. I wandered the desert and the mountains in search of Thunderbird and Coyote.…
Tagged: daily prompt, Navajo, Odysseus, Rock, the daily post, The Sun Spirit, Thor, Twin Warriors, Vishnu
Young Adult is a genre that spans a number of subgenres, including coming-of-age realism, fantasy, and supernatural novels. Young Adult readers are typically between 12 and 18 years old. In this creative writing course we will focus on writing your own YA novel. In eight sessions we will explore techniques on developing story structure and plot, scenes and dialogue, as well as on establishing believable characters. We will dive into famous and less famous YA novels to find out what works in YA fiction. The course will be taught in English with the occasional Dutch words thrown in. Course materials will be available in both English and Dutch. Students may write in English or Dutch. Session 1 – September 22, 2013: Identifying Conflict and…
Poem for one of my dearest friends.
Tagged: aphasia, bubbles, Poem, speech, strings of letters
At last! We enjoyed the very first spring day of 2013. Sitting in the window, it made me think of that camp song so inextricably bound to our fair city: Tulips from Amsterdam. We usually sing the Dutch version ‘Tulpen uit Amsterdam’ and typically only when we’re drunk with joy or otherwise intoxicated — temperatures above 20ºC or over two hours of sunshine a day can do that to us. More than a few believe the song to be an old folk song, but it was originally written by German singer/songwriter Klaus-Günther Neumann. The English version became one of the signature songs of British comedian and singer Max Bygraves. The sun and the warmth drew me outside and strolling along the beautiful beautiful green canals…
The Grimm Way Check out my blog post on the TeachingAuthors Blog, where I show how I use Little Red Riding Hood to explain my creative writing students the necessity of conflict in story. The last exercise in the blog posts asks you to write two new short stories featuring Little Red Riding Hood. For the first one, you pick a problem that fits you best as a writer. For the second one – and this is the hard one – pick a problem that fits you least as a writer. Go read the blog post and challenge yourself. Raise the stakes for both Little Red Riding Hood and yourself. Looking forward to reading your stories!
Categories: A Bit of Everything
Mina Witteman 