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Sunday, December 6, 2015 8:06:14 PM
Wendy Orr wrote a blog post titled Holiday Giveaway! Choose your signed book:
Wendy said, "You may have noticed that the calendar and the year have spun around and it’s December already. For many of us this means that Christmas or Honnukah is approaching as well, and so in the holiday spirit, I’m giving a signed, postage paid book to..." more
Tuesday, November 24, 2015 5:59:15 PM
Wendy Orr wrote a blog post titled Keeping First Draft Creating separate from Editing:
Wendy said, "Our friends at grammarly.com have sent a helpful list of things to watch for when editing - whether it's your NaNoWriMo novel or anything else. However I've held back on sharing till the end of the month, because I think it's essential that while..." more
Friday, October 2, 2015 3:47:38 AM
Wendy Orr wrote a blog post titled Champ's Story of Survival - a Real Life 'Rainbow Street Animal Shelter' story:
Wendy said, "Today, Harry the Rescue Dog is interviewing Champ for his Rainbow Street blog post - with special thanks to Fiona Ingram for translating, and for including Champ's poem as well!Tell us a bit about your story?Hi Harry, thanks so much for featuring my..." more
Sunday, September 20, 2015 6:48:24 PM
Wendy Orr wrote a blog post titled :
Wendy said, "It's impossible to overemphasise the importance of literacy, so I'm sharing this infographic from Grammarly https://www.grammarly.com/plagiarism-checker (More than just cute quotes on Facebook!)I did have one query, as I thought the..." more
Saturday, August 1, 2015 3:13:05 AM
Wendy Orr wrote a blog post titled The award Nim would be most proud of:
Wendy said, "The environment and children’s literature are two things I care about passionately, so I was absolutely thrilled last Tuesday night when, at a lovely event at the Melbourne’s Little Bookroom, Rescue on Nim’s Island was awarded the..." more
Wednesday, July 15, 2015 4:46:46 AM
Wendy Orr wrote a blog post titled Lost and found lion friends:
Wendy said, "It’s happy book birthday for the new paperback editions of Wanted! A Guinea Pig called Henry, and Abandoned! A Lion Called Kiki. Harry the Rescue Dog is celebrating with an updated post on the origin of the lion story – because believe it or..." more
Saturday, March 28, 2015 9:14:19 PM
Wendy Orr wrote a blog post titled Asking questions to turn thoughts into story ideas:
Wendy said, "Eleven year old Maddison wants to be a writer and has asked where I get ideas from. That’s a great question because every story has to start with an idea! Ideas come from thoughts, and thoughts come from all our senses, as well as our emotion and..." more
Tuesday, March 10, 2015 6:47:45 PM
Wendy Orr wrote a blog post titled Harry the Rescue Dog Talks Animal Shelters: Debra Duel and the Washington Animal Rescue League:
Wendy said, "Harry the Rescue Dog's Rainbow Street Post:Although Harry might look as if he's dozing after an exhausting ball play, he's actually contemplating his first of a series of blog posts to celebrate rescue pets, animal shelters like the one he was..." more
Wednesday, February 18, 2015 4:47:34 PM
Wendy Orr wrote a blog post titled Happy Lunar New Year - and a book excerpt.:
Wendy said, "As a little gift for the Year of the Goat, I'm posting the first chapter of Across the Dark Sea, which begins with the first day of Tet, the Vietnamese New Year. If you prefer, you can download it from my website:The book has lovely illustrations by..." more
Tuesday, February 3, 2015 7:36:44 PM
Wendy Orr wrote a blog post titled Thirty years in the making – where did Nim come from?:
Wendy said, "The wonderfully zany and multi-talented author Tristan Bancks said I had to write a blog post about my character or he’d never speak to me again. I mean, he invited me to be part of a character blog hop. You can meet his character Tom Weekly..." more
Monday, December 15, 2014 9:36:48 PM
Wendy Orr wrote a blog post titled Holiday season story starters - using the stories, emotions and memories triggered by objects:
Wendy said, "The holiday season can be joyous: all that family, expectation and tradition – but it can also be difficult: all that family, expectation and tradition. Usually it's both. If you're a writer, that tension and drama means a huge source of..." more
Sunday, November 30, 2014 11:07:14 PM
Wendy Orr wrote a blog post titled Lort Smith - Animal Shelter success stories.:
Wendy said, "Nearly six years ago, as I was writing the second book in the Rainbow Street Animal Shelter Series, (which became the book Rainbow Street Pets in Australia) Harry came into our lives.Harry is a poodle cross (a poodle enigma, since no one knows what..." more
Saturday, November 22, 2014 8:40:26 PM
Wendy Orr wrote a blog post titled Grammar nerds are right: grammar matters to employers too:
Wendy said, "I confess: I’m a grammar nerd. I always have been. Even when I walked through the hospital corridors in my occupational therapist, pre-writing life, I always loved snarling at the door marked KITCHEN’S, ‘What exactly does the kitchen own?’..." more
Thursday, November 6, 2014 2:24:08 AM
Wendy Orr wrote a blog post titled Dialogue with your Protagonist: Stop floundering and get down to the bones of your story:
Wendy said, "A lot of people are doing NaNoWriMo this month (for those who don’t know it, the aim is to write 50,000 words of a novel in November) so if anyone’s feeling a bit stuck, I thought I’d share a variation of a technique I used in a..." more
Tuesday, October 14, 2014 6:03:59 PM
Wendy Orr wrote a blog post titled Making the most of writing time: slow down, reflect and make notes: Or - how to write when you don't have your computer!:
Wendy said, "One of the disadvantages of being a full time writer (apart from the details of never knowing whether or not you’ll have an income this year) is that it’s easy to slip into the trap of simply jumping into the story each day, whatever draft..." more
Monday, September 29, 2014 10:45:16 PM
Wendy Orr wrote a blog post titled Setting Your Characters Free - From Book to Film and back again:
Wendy said, "Bindi Irwin as Nim, from Return to Nim's Island movie posterI know that tying in a film to a book sequel sounds like the writer’s equivalent of a first world problem, but in fact we always need to be aware of how much we are, or want to be,..." more
Monday, September 1, 2014 3:35:46 AM
Wendy Orr wrote a blog post titled The Art of Storytelling - For Grade 3 at Munson Elementary, by Wendy Orr...
Sunday, August 17, 2014 5:57:08 PM
Wendy Orr wrote a blog post titled The comfort of bedtime stories:
Wendy said, "The saddest story I've ever heard about the importance of reading to your children came from someone who told me that the happiest times of her childhood were when her mother was in hospital, because she would be sent to stay with neighbours - and..." more
Wednesday, August 13, 2014 4:43:01 AM
Wendy Orr wrote a blog post titled National Reading Hour - Would you like me to read you a story?:
Wendy said, "Australia’s National Reading Hour is fast approaching: 6 pm on Tuesday August 19: a time when we celebrate the act of reading with children. Reading is one of the most important things in my life. Stories take us into new worlds and teach us..." more
Saturday, July 19, 2014 4:49:54 PM
Wendy Orr wrote a blog post titled Have you ever ridden on a sea lion?:
Wendy said, "Miriam at Create Hope Inspire blog interviewed me about Rescue on Nim's Island this week. Her two young sons also had some great questions! Here are a couple:Have you ever ridden on a sea lion?What does a sea lion's fur feel..." more
Thursday, June 19, 2014 2:23:36 AM
Wendy Orr wrote a blog post titled :
Wendy said, "I've been a bad, slow, blogger lately (even more than usual!) but my excuse, apart from having a wonderful four weeks of travel, inspiration and, yes, even a holiday – is that I was copyediting, rereading, proofing and driving my editors crazy..." more
Monday, May 19, 2014 11:55:11 AM
Wendy Orr wrote a blog post titled History and the magic of inspiration:
Wendy said, "Inspiration, story ideas - they're all around us, in everything that we see and hear, think and do, every day of our lives. But sometimes a particular story needs more specific inspiration, as well as hard research, and that's one of the reasons I'm..." more
Friday, April 18, 2014 4:47:04 AM
Wendy Orr wrote a blog post titled My friend's son is in jail:
Wendy said, "My friend’s son is in jail. These aren’t words I ever thought I’d write; they’re not words my friend would have ever thought I’d write. And at first glance, they’re not words about books and writing, which is what this blog is about. But..." more
Sunday, March 23, 2014 2:03:46 AM
Wendy Orr wrote a blog post titled Awards from home - Diamonds are a girl's best friend:
Wendy said, "Okay, so the diamonds may be symbolic here!It's always a thrill to be nominated for any award, but some awards have an extra sentimental kick for their particular book. RAVEN'S MOUNTAIN (Australiantitle) or FACING THE MOUNTAIN (Canadian title)..." more
Friday, December 11, 2015 5:09:12 PM
Wendy Orr wrote a blog post titled And the winner is...:
Wendy said, "And the winner is... Ginger Woods, who subscribes to my rather irregular newsletter. She chose Abandoned: A Lion Called Kiki - so here's a picture of the little lioness who became Kiki in the book, and her foster mother Mona - (Mona of Rainbow..." more