{"id":10600,"date":"2026-03-12T20:50:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T20:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/?p=10600"},"modified":"2026-03-12T20:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T20:54:10","slug":"bond-academy-virtual-vist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/bond-academy-virtual-vist\/","title":{"rendered":"Bond Academy virtual vist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Loved visiting with grade 6-8 students from Bond Academy in Scarborough ON yesterday. We talked about learning challenges, what makes an interesting story and my Kidnapped from Ukraine trilogy. My favourite question was a writers’ craft one: how do you fix it when you know the whole story that you’re writing but there are blank spots and details that need to be filled in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My answer? I said that I hate to break it to you, but what you’ve got there is an outline, not a story. And then we discussed what goes into knowing your character and their world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another great question was what does it mean, being banned by Russia!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another one? Why do you write?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Loved visiting with grade 6-8 students from Bond Academy in Scarborough ON yesterday. We talked about learning challenges, what makes an interesting story and my Kidnapped from Ukraine trilogy. My favourite question was a writers’ craft one: how do you fix it when you know the whole story that you’re writing but there are blank … Continue reading “Bond Academy virtual vist”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[262],"tags":[1048,894,470,283,7,955],"class_list":["post-10600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-stories","tag-bond-academy","tag-kidnapped-from-ukraie","tag-scholastic-book-fairs","tag-scholastic-canada","tag-ukrainian","tag-virtual-visit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10600"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10604,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10600\/revisions\/10604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}