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Dear Alison, You sure do know the way to my nerdy heart. I can't believe that you went to all the trouble to create charts just for me...well, I guess it was technically for the blog, but we know who those charts were really for...I mean the post screams, "Kim, this one's for you!" I don't have anything stat driven today, but I plan to gush on and on about Zachariah Ohora and the Character session I crashed at the SCBWIEPA Pocono Retreat. In last week's  SCBWIEPA Pocono Highlights #2 post , I announced to the world that I am a closet illustrator. For a while, I've felt the need to push out of my comfort zone and attend some different sessions. My theory was that if I sat in a room with creative genius that some of that genius would rub off on me. Well, that was theory until Zachariah informed us we were going to draw. Draw? DRAW. No one said anything about draw. I grabbed my things and acted like I had somewhere else to go. Fortunately, Zachariah c...

Dear Alison, I am a closet illustrator. I admire illustrators' ability to capture a moment, a feeling, a thought, an action in a single illustration. I even went to Zachariah OHora's Illustrator Session (I'll talk about that session another time) in hopes that I could glean some of his creative genius. I was so inspired I decided to create a post through pictures. So here goes... The Pocono Retreat 2016 was all about character and we kicked off the weekend Friday night with a costume party... Willowdean, Bellatrix and Max Quacks, Ducktective AKA Alison, Kim, and Donna Opal from Because of Winn-Dixie AKA Susan North Belle AKA Phoebe AKA Author Isabel Bandeira and Val Jones, Author of Who Wants Broccoli Dana Kramaroff Sophie from Sophie's Squash AKA Virginia Law Manning Strider from Lord of the Rings AKA Wes Loder Sophie from Sophie's Masterpiece  AKA Chrissa Pederson Harold's Purple Crayon AKA Andree Santini Ano...