MarcyKate Connolly

Middle Grade & Young Adult Author

Month: August, 2009

Progress Report—August 30

# OF WORDS WRITTEN THIS WEEK: 5,157 Excel­lent week for writ­ing!  I made some seri­ous head­way on THE GHOST WRITER and I’m now 20% of the way to my writ­ing goal for that novel.  I exceeded my goal of two chap­ters and man­aged to fin­ish off three, mak­ing this the most pro­duc­tive week I’ve had in […]

Free Stuff Friday, PLUS Sea Monsters

I’m not actu­ally giv­ing any­thing away, but I do a lot of research into free stuff you can get on the inter­net and I’ve decided to start shar­ing on Fri­days.  I do love tech­nol­ogy Free Stuff I Use Every­day: 1) Tweet­deck. If you’re on Twit­ter, you need this.  You won’t know you need it until […]

Early Scottish Music Notation

Go read this arti­cle.  Too cool! Mark­ings on a 16th Cen­tury carv­ing from Stir­ling Cas­tle could be the old­est sur­viv­ing piece of writ­ten Scot­tish instru­men­tal music, his­to­ri­ans believe. A sequence of 0s, Is and IIs have been found on one of the Stir­ling Heads — wooden medal­lions which would have dec­o­rated the castle’s royal palace. It […]

Progress Report—August 24

Alright, I know I’ve been delin­quent in post­ing the past two weeks.  And I only wrote 499 new words dur­ing that time. BUT it’s with good rea­son. I swear. I’ve been knee deep in revi­sions of GLOW. And I feel really, really good about it. Here’s what hap­pened: I’ve been strug­gling with how to cut down the […]

Progress Report—August 9

# OF WORDS WRITTEN THIS WEEK: 4,139 Progress wasn’t bad this week.  Which is good.  I had planned to get a lot more accom­plished, but, as usual, life has a way of, well, get­ting in the way. How­ever, I did man­age to reach all my goals.  I wrote a chap­ter in SHADOW, plus one and half chapters […]

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    I’m a writer and arts admin­is­tra­tor liv­ing in New Eng­land with my hus­band and pugs. I’m also a cof­fee addict, vora­cious reader, and recur­ring com­muter. I occa­sion­ally blog at From the Write Angle and vol­un­teer as a mod­er­a­tor at AgentQueryConnect.com. Rep­re­sented by Suzie Townsend of New Leaf Lit­er­ary & Media. My debut novel MONSTROUS will be out from Harper­Collins Children’s Books in 2014!

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