Some of you are really going to love this one! My boss showed this to me today, In the latest issue of True West is an article on steampunk old west style. I have scanned you a preview of the article which you may view below, if you would like to see the full article the copy of True West will be on the new Magazine shelf all month, and will be available for check out next month. it might be upside down, for which i apologize, you can rotate thw view under the 'view' options in adobe reader.
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(Click here for more information) Attention teens! You can help win up to $3,000 for your library. Here’s how: Make a video!
From each age category (13-15 and 16-18):
For more information, contact [email protected]. Teen Tech Week 2011 is coming up next month! This event is aimed at encouraging teens to take advantage of all the nonprint resources available at the library and learn about the cool stuff we can do with technology. Whether you are blogging, listening to audiobooks or CDs, making a music video, or reading your favorite zine, technology makes it happen.
Check out the new display in the YA section to find out more about Teen Tech Week! -Anna Hey everyone last Chimera was a creative writing event. The rules this time were to take an illustration from an early 1800s book and write the short story explaining what was happening in the image. Here are what the teens came up with. Untitled "I apologize for departing so suddenly, Mademoiselle, "the man said, as he took the lady's hand, placing a bright kiss on the back of it, his lips barely touching the skin. Standing up straight again, he tipped his hat to her before leaving through the gate, his partner following him out. The lady stood there watching until the two men were out of sight. She knew that they would return someday. The kiss had been a silent promise of that. All that was left for her to do now was wait. After several minutes, she turned, walking back down the hall, leaving the gate behind her. For a brief moment, she considered what it would be like if she could go with them. If she could do more than simply wait for them to return. She quickly stopped thinking about that, knowing that her thoughts wouldn't change anything. Her usefulness was in that she would always be there; she acted as the one, solid, consistent reason for them to return one day. That in itself was her accomplishment. The Tiger |
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Now that we’ve established that you should ignore the NaNoWriMo naysayers, I’d like to share with you two complementary bits of advice I’ve found online and one book that I think get at the heart of the spirit of National Novel Writing Month, for those of you who have chosen to participate in it. A few months ago, John Scalzi wrote a short essay in which the takeaway line (at least for me) was, “Either you want to write or you don’t, and thinking that you want to write really doesn’t mean anything.”
“Do you want to write or don’t you? If your answer is ‘yes, but,’ then here’s a small editing tip: what you’re doing is using six letters and two words to say ‘no.’ And that’s fine. Just don’t kid yourself as to what ‘yes, but’ means.
“If your answer is ‘yes,’ then the question is simply when and how you find the time to do it. If you spend your free time after work watching TV, turn off the TV and write. If you prefer to spend time with your family when you get home, write a bit after the kids are in bed and before you turn in yourself. If your work makes you too tired to think straight when you get home, wake up early and write a little in the morning before you head off. If you can’t do that (I’m not a morning person myself) then you have your weekend… And if you can’t manage that, then what you’re saying is that you were lying when you said your answer is ‘yes.’”
Last year, Merlin Mann offered very similar advice, elaborating on the importance of keeping up your momentum: Start writing, and keep writing! He also warned about paying too much attention to creative writing advice: “When I’m reading about writing, I’m not writing.”
That said, I do want to take a quick moment to plug one of my all-time favorite books about creativity and writing, Gail Sher’s One Continuous Mistake. Its core message is straightforward, best expressed by two of the four “noble truths” upon which Sher builds her advice. “Writers write,” she says. “If writing is your practice, the only way to fail is not to write.” The rest of the book is about opening yourself up to the process of writing and teaching yourself to get out of your own way. The chapters are short, but each one is packed tightly; in a way, the book is more useful as a devotional-like object than as an argument to be read all the way through. Because, after all, you really should be writing.
Hi teens!
October 17-23 is Teen Read Week. This year's theme is Books with Beat @ your library! Check out poetry and listen to audiobooks. Also, check out anything with BEAT...crime beat, street lit, music beat, and books that make your heart beat!
There are lots of reasons to celebrate Teen Read Week. Reading is free, fun, and can be done anywhere!
We have a "Books with Beat" display set up in the Young Adult Department, so check it out.
Remember reading is a great form of entertainment!
See you soon.
Laura
Check out the NaNoWriMo Young Writers Program!
Click here for a workbook.
What is NaNoWriMo?
National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30.
Valuing enthusiasm and perseverance over painstaking craft, NaNoWriMo is a novel-writing program for everyone who has thought fleetingly about writing a novel but has been scared away by the time and effort involved.
Because of the limited writing window, the ONLY thing that matters in NaNoWriMo is output. It's all about quantity, not quality. The kamikaze approach forces you to lower your expectations, take risks, and write on the fly.
Make no mistake: You will be writing a lot of crap. And that's a good thing. By forcing yourself to write so intensely, you are giving yourself permission to make mistakes. To forgo the endless tweaking and editing and just create. To build without tearing down.
As you spend November writing, you can draw comfort from the fact that, all around the world, other National Novel Writing Month participants are going through the same joys and sorrows of producing the Great Frantic Novel. Wrimos meet throughout the month to offer encouragement, commiseration, and—when the thing is done—the kind of raucous celebrations that tend to frighten animals and small children.
In 2009, we had over 165,000 participants. More than 30,000 of them crossed the 50K finish line by the midnight deadline, entering into the annals of NaNoWriMo superstardom forever. They started the month as auto mechanics, out-of-work actors, and middle school English teachers. They walked away novelists.
So, to recap:
What: Writing one 50,000-word novel from scratch in a month's time.
Who: You! We can't do this unless we have some other people trying it as well. Let's write laughably awful yet lengthy prose together.
Why: The reasons are endless! To actively participate in one of our era's most enchanting art forms! To write without having to obsess over quality. To be able to make obscure references to passages from our novels at parties. To be able to mock real novelists who dawdle on and on, taking far longer than 30 days to produce their work.
When: You can sign up anytime to add your name to the roster and browse the forums. Writing begins November 1. To be added to the official list of winners, you must reach the 50,000-word mark by November 30 at midnight. Once your novel has been verified by our web-based team of robotic word counters, the partying begins.
(From http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/whatisnano)
Laura & Bailey
Laura Prestia and Bailey Murray are the Young Adult Specialists here at the Albany County Public Library.
Please feel free to join Laura and Bailey Thursdays from 4 to 5pm @ the library for teen programing, see the events page for list of activities.
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