REBLOG: Visual Thinking Tool Kit by: Eric Schneider

REBLOG:

Visual Thinking Tool Kit

by Eric Schneider

Eric Schneider gives us some great food for thought...

"Over the last several months, I’ve been working to up my game when it comes to creating visual content for blogging and work. I’ve been doing some of this for a while and published an entry on my personal blog about three years ago titled Professionally Geeking Out where I shared some of what I was doing. Interestingly, my quest to expand my skills hasn’t led me to expanding my tool set. I’m working with a leaner set of those tools now but I’m better at using them. I recently posted that three-year-old blog on Linkedin and got some questions about what I’ve been doing from several friends and colleagues. One of those, Eric Yamamoto, is terrific with a whiteboard or easel. He commented that he was frustrated with drawing digitally and told me that I am making a lot of progress. So when asked me to share, I took it to heart..."

READ MORE of his article by clicking HERE!


Eric Schneider has been in the software sales and service industry since 1994. He is an avid biker, father of two, and has been happily married for nearly 20 years. His blog is simply to share some thoughts on what can help make you more aware of yourself and therefore more successful in your interactions.    View all posts by ericschneiderr

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HOW-TO... Add a Book to Your SCBWI Profile

HOW-TO...
Add a Book to Your Profile

Hello Breezers.

We know how overwhelming the SCBWI and Southern Breeze websites can be. So we have decided to bring you tutorials to help you navigate the websites and feel more at home.
This video will walk you through the steps to add/edit books to your profile.

You can follow Tracey M. Cox's channel so you will receive updates as she posts new tutorials. There is also a SCBWI channel. They upload videos periodically and you can subscribe to them also.

Stay tuned. We will be creating more videos and posting them here on the Southern Breeze blog!
Here's a list of our videos to help you navigate the SCBWI website:

• How to Log In and Create/Edit Your Profile
• How to Add a Book to Your Profile
• How to Add an Illustration to Your Profile
• How to Add Magazine Articles to Your Profile

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How-Tos.... VIDEOS

HOW-TO...
Log In &
Create/Edit Profile

Hello Breezers.

We know how overwhelming the SCBWI and Southern Breeze websites can be. So we have decided to bring you tutorials to help you navigate the websites and feel more at home.
Our first video will be helping you log in and create/edit your profile.

You can follow Tracey M. Cox's channel so you will receive updates as she posts new tutorials. There is also a SCBWI channel. They upload videos periodically and you can subscribe to them also.

Stay tuned. We will be creating more videos and posting them here on the Southern Breeze blog!

• How To Log In & Create/Edit Your Profile
• How To Add a Book to Your Profile
• How To Add an Illustration to Your Profile
• How to Add Magazine Articles to Your Profile

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The Southern Breeze Mentorship Program Wants YOU!

You’ve been writing for years. You’ve learned so much from the conferences and workshops you’ve attended. Your critique group says you are right on the cusp of getting published. You just need something . . .

The new Southern Breeze Mentor program might be just the thing to help you get over the hump!

Of course, a mentorship can’t guarantee that your manuscript will land in the right hands at the right time. That would take a magic wand. But months of mentoring by a well-published author can help you polish your words and see your work more clearly.

We have mentors waiting in the wings in most every juvenile genre PLUS grant writing! I would imagine this program would be especially helpful for novelists. It’s difficult for a critique group to provide in- depth feedback on an entire novel, generally hearing only 1-2 chapters per meeting. And the other alternative – hiring a freelance editor for a novel is cost prohibitive.

Our talented pool of mentors includes:

Heather Montgomery, NF and Grant Writing
Vicky Alvear Shecter, Novels and Nonfiction
Susan Nees, Chapter Books
Jodi Wheeler-Toppen, Nonfiction and Magazine
Karen Kurtz, Nonfiction and Grant Writing
Nancy Raines Day, Picture Books
Kami Kinard, MG Novels
Irene Latham, Poetry
Jo S. Kittinger, Picture Books, Fiction or NF

Beyond the fact that these authors are successful in their fields, they also each have a teacher’s heart. They want to invest in the next wave of writers coming up the ranks. That attitude is what makes SCBWI such an amazing organization. We all want children to have the best books possible, whether or not it is you or I that writes it.

Learn more about the Southern Breeze Mentor Program on the website. It’s not too late to apply!!

~Jo S. Kittinger
Mentorship Coordinator

New Breezers and The First of the Year

Oh, Breezers, January is a busy month for SCBWI! Let’s take a look at the First of the Year PAL To Do List:

Update the PAL Speaker Card

Update the PAL email list

Inform and sign up PALs re: spring events

Round up a PAL Panel for Springmingle

And that’s just the PAL doings I can remember right now.

But then I remembered you, new Breezers, and I sat down to write. So gather round, ‘cause this post’s for you!

January is the time when we’re all making resolutions, goals, affirmations, loose plans…. whatever. For children’s writers and artists, it’s the time of year when many of us join SCBWI. That means new membership coming in.

Wheeee!

Except, well, it’s all new to you. And the first conference, that wonderful event when you can meet people and really sink your teeth into this terrific organization you’ve joined, is not until March.

Oh, dear.

It’s possible that you might miss out on our January PAL doings, and we can’t have that. So first of all, you need to see if you are a PAL member. Please check here, on the SCBWI Membership page.

And because time is of the essence, I’m answering here and now the questions I commonly get:

1. My book doesn’t come out until April of 2017, so do I sign up for PAL then?

You are PAL when you have a contract. Fill out the information and plug in that PAL publisher and bam! You’re PAL.

2. But I don’t have a book; I only have an article I wrote seven years ago for Highlights Magazine. That doesn’t count, does it?

Why, yes, it does count. Articles, illustrations, poems—anything that’s been published that’s on the PAL list, no matter how long ago, qualifies you for PAL membership.

3. My publisher is not on the PAL list, but I think it should be. What can I do?

The instructions are right there on the membership page. If you don’t hear back within a reasonable time period—say, two to three weeks—then send an email with your questions to the SCBWI membership email.

Or you can send your questions to me, and I’ll do my best to find the answers. Now, off you go, Breezers! Time and PAL doings wait for no man (or woman)!

~Cathy C. Hall

PAL Coordinator

SCBWI/Southern Breeze

SouthernBreeze.PAL@gmail.com