You must write for children in the same way as you do for adults, only better." - Maxim Gorky

When I was in high school, one of my favorite teachers would give us "CB"s during our tests. He'd tell us the answer to an early question well into the exam, or sometimes give us glaringly obvious hints for problems we were likely to be on at that point. He called them CBs, confidence boosters, and I'm sure he knew exactly what he was doing since ( Read more... )

Being someone who feels not exactly inclined toward the whole "WRITE EVERY DAY" golden rule of writing, I've decided to take part in Laurie Halse Anderson's annual Write Fifteen Minutes A Day challenge ( Read more... )

It's been a while. Most of my projects are suspended in some sort of mid-air limbo. The scenes and things I have been working on/puzzling out have seen neither keyboard nor pen and paper and are all floating in silvery, nethery wisps somewhere in my brain (think Harry Potter ( Read more... )

I have to go to work, but I just wanted to remark on a dawning theory first. I went to lunch today at the irl version of the restaurant my MC works at inYear of the Navel, and I had like 5 ideas suddenly come up and smack me in the face. Some were "where to go next" type things. Some were possibly scenes to work on separately to get ( Read more... )

( survey behind here )

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you. - Leo Tolstoy

Well, I've stopped a moment.

to say the least...

I stopped for many moments.

months, even, one might say

Point being, after all that happened with the year-round program, after all the upheaval and hassle of moving back home, it's back.

ishI still haven't come ( Read more... )

A friend of mine linked to this website on another site today, and I find myself very tempted to "repurpose" some of the postings.

Thoughts on whether or no this is wrong?

I don't know anything about the quality/validity of this link, but nonetheless, Amazon has a free downloadable PDF about writing query letters. It's from Noah Lukeman, who also wrote The First Five Pages.

aka, I'm torn.

On the one hand, one of my reviews has popped up on Barnes and Noble. Now, if I do a targeted ego search (aka enter my name and the phrase children's literature into Google), I come up. ME! On the first page! THE THIRD ENTRY EVEN!!!*breathes ( Read more... )