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ReFoReMo Day 29: Carrie and Kirsti Celebrate with You! Plus, a Giveaway!

3/29/2016

You’ve done it! You have reached the end! (Go ahead…kiss the ground.) Was that couch beginning to swallow you up? Or were you at your desk most of the time? Whether you read one book or five each day, you are a winner! If you increased your reading research habits in any way, you are a winner! Even if one mentor text helped you revise a manuscript, you are a winner! The official reading period ran between March 7-27. As far as your reading goes, the goal is consistency and developing a new research habit. We are proud of each and every one of you!

Feel free to post your ReFoReMo Winner Badge on your blog, website, and social media profiles. Link the badge back to this address: http://www.reforemo.com/p/reforemo-mission.html
Thanks again to our incredibly talented resident illustrator, Lori Nawyn! The badge is beautiful!

As we mentioned in yesterday's post, ReFoReMo is moving to a new blog home! To celebrate the transition, we are offering this extra prize opportunity to EVERYONE, whether you are registered for ReFoReMo or not! There are two prizes in this drawing (see the little dots and arrows): one picture book critique (from Carrie) and one picture book (Kirsti's The Raindrop that Couldn't Fall). Follow the instructions in the Rafflecopter below to enter. All we ask is that you subscribe to the new site! That will enable you to continue receiving our weekly mentor text posts. You will enter your email in the right hand side bar of the new site (www.reforemo.com.) You will see a captcha box pop up after entering your email address, so please don’t skip that step. A verification email will come to your email inbox. Confirm that email and you will be all set to receive blog posts and enter the drawing. New options for extra entries in the drawing will be revealed in the Rafflecopter after you unlock the first step. This drawing is open between today and April 5. Please help us by spreading the news! (You are entitled to extra entries each day you share!)

a Rafflecopter giveaway

We will remain on this blog site until the end of March. All prize announcements and other posts in April and beyond will come from the new site. If you don't want to miss out, make sure you subscribe to posts from the new site at www.reforemo.com.

Please share your ReFoReMo achievements below and consider sending in a submission for our Revealing ReFoReMo series. This series is open to ReFoReMo participants who are interested in sharing the glory of mentor texts, research methods, specific revelations, or anything else related to your ReFoReMo experience. Submission guidelines can be found HERE.

Prize drawings for fully registered ReFoReMo participants will open tomorrow and only be available for one day. I repeat: ONE DAY. One entry will place you in the drawing for all of the prizes. If you enter more than once, you will be disqualified. There is magic in the number one: One Day. One entry. Rafflecopters will open at 12:00am CST March 30 and remain open only until 12:00am CST on March 31. Make sure you take advantage of your entry while you can.

You are eligible to enter the drawings if:

You commented on every ReFoReMo post.
You were properly registered by March 1 (Check the registration post)
You read daily.

Registrations and comments will be verified before announcing prize winners and the process may take us a few weeks.

See you bright and early tomorrow morning! If for some reason you have trouble with your Rafflecopter entry, refresh your browser and try again. Even if you are not eligible to enter, please join us as we celebrate the entire team (and you!) tomorrow.

Congratulations to everyone! Please share your success below.

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Get Ready…Get Set…

2/9/2016

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You already know by now that your biggest tools during ReFoReMo will be picture books! But, what else? Well, without this blog, the challenge wouldn’t be much. Sure, you can read picture books, and rely on your ninja-like reflexes to chop them apart and chew them up into bite-sized pieces. But hold on for a minute. We’ve got 27 author-educators lined up to share their perspectives on writing/illustrating. That means at least 27 different ways of looking at things, which equates to one great picture book education. Since this industry is so subjective, gathering the opinions of others matters a whole lot. But through it all, there is one opinion that can tell you more about who you are as a writer. Do you know whose opinion that is? Yours! Your inner editor will shape your voice and dictate what types of stories resonate with you. Does that mean you can’t learn from someone you disagree with? Of course not! There’s a lot to learn! So much, in fact, that a writer or illustrator can always learn more.

You may receive the same exact picture book recommendation from multiple author-educators. But you won’t receive the same exact viewpoint. Exciting! It’s like having fly eyes! A kaleidoscope of perspectives!

So, here’s a list of the tools you’ll need to proceed:

This ReFoReMo blog- This also means you need a computer or a device that allows you to access the internet everyday for a month. And FYI- We have heard it is easier to leave comments and access all menus from a computer.
Picture books
A library or bookstore nearby (Don’t have one? That brings me to my next point)
Our ReFoReMo Facebook group- This is the place to ask questions, share viewpoints, and even team up so that you get your hands on the picture book recommendations.
A Notebook- Or you may prefer to use some of the prepared worksheets we have in our tools section.
A writing utensil.
Knowledge- or rather, how to find everything on our blog. Do you see that heading at the top that says REFOREMO? Hover over it. Wah-la! A whole list of places to go! There you will find our calendar of speakers, and a little about your coordinators, our reading list (released on the 23rd), the 2015 challenge posts, and an explanation of the ReFoReMo goals.

Speaking of goals, do you know our ReFoReMo goals?

Our broad generalized goal is to develop a regular habit of reading for research consistently in order to enhance our writing and illustration.

Our more focused goals are listed here:

MARCH 1-6
Educate:
Read author-educator posts featuring 10 stellar picture book models and how to use the texts to grow. Reserve library books & reflect on your own manuscripts.

MARCH 7-27
Read:
Set a goal to read 5 PBs books each day. Author-educators will offer 5 recommendations with super short edu-posts to allow you more time for reading & researching.
5 books x 21 days = 105 books!

MARCH 1-31
Take notes as you go and join us in our private Facebook Group to discuss revelations and additional recommendations. Team up with others to discuss the books and posts in detail.

After the first complete week, we will utilize the Saturdays that follow for reflection and application to our own writing. We will take a blog break on Sunday the 13th, 20th, and 27th. These three Sundays might also give you a chance to catch up on your reading.

Registration opens next Monday, February 15 at 6 am CST and will be open until Monday March 1 at 11 pm CST. If you are already registered for the blog, you will just have one additional easy registration step to perform and a few other optional steps. If you want to be eligible for prizes during ReFoReMo, you will need to be properly registered. All the details will be in next Monday’s post! Are you excited?

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ReFoReMo Day 29: Carrie and Kirsti Celebrate with You! Plus, a Giveaway!

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