ONE:
Heading off this morning to meet for the first time
with my new mentor, Claudia Mills.
She’ll be working with me to revise CLOSE TO HOME,
a MG I love and want to see published.
I’m grateful to the Rocky Mountain Chapter of SCBWI
for instituting this new mentor program.
TWO:
Zippy convinced me to buy hot meats bird seed.
Huh?!
Sunflower Meats, hot chili peppers, and safflower oil.
Supposedly, birds don’t mind the heat but squirrels do.
Zippy thought we’d get a greater variety of birds
if we offered hot meats rather than plain old safflower seeds.
But so far….
no takers.
On the plus side, I haven’t seen any squirrels with pained expressions, either.
(And so you don’t think we’re completely heartless,
we have one of those squirrel corn-cob-thingies available for gnawing).
Tracy Abell 
Oh, I hope your morning is filled with inspiration and fun 🙂
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It was great, Robin. Thank you for those good wishes. She had so many insights into the ms, and we talked and talked about ways to improve it. I’m very excited. Plus, the drive up Hwy 93 was beautiful; blue skies and no wind!
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how fabulous! I believe in mentors. Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful.
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Thank you, Laura. It was a great meeting and I shared my bracelet with her. When we were saying goodbye, she said “We will prevail!” Another believer!
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Yay for mentors and hot chili peppers!
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A definite YAY for mentors but I’m not so sure about those hot chili peppers. Still haven’t seen anyone at the feeder. Maybe we attract birds with highly developed taste buds or something…
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Claudia’s cool. You’re cool. Now you can be cool together! Wish I could share a bowl of birdseed with you guys.
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Hey! I was just telling Zippy I hadn’t seen you around here in a while and was wondering what was going on. Everything okay in your neck of the woods?
Do you know Claudia? I’m so thrilled to be working with her; we had a great session today and in addition to lots of laughing, I know she’s going to do wonders for my revision.
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Everything’s fine here. I just got back from three days of hockey with T-boy.
I’ve never met Claudia, but I know her work and I’m betting she’d be a great mentor. Really sharp, clean writing. That’s all I know.
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Three days of hockey with T-boy. And you smiled the entire time, right? Glad you’re back in action.
Claudia’s got sharp thinking going on, too.
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