Sorry we have been all so quiet. Residency fever has us all hot and bothered – about theme, about great children’s books, about writing process, about being together in a community that I want to bottle up and take...
Read MoreMy final post before the residency. Check out this link for a great, very thorough New Yorker article about past and present distopian YA novels. It opens with this thought about one of our common books this residency....
Read MoreGood morning, dear readers. No, not that F word. This blog isn’t about censorship, but rather failure. Facing failure. Oh, great, you’re thinking. What an upbeat topic for a summer day. So Ron has written about the h...
Read MoreSo we all know that every story needs a protagonist. And that usually the protagonist has a breakdown that leads to a breakthrough, whether a fictional character or a person who really lived. As the protagonists in our own...
Read MorePretty soon a gaggle of writers will be meeting up at Hamline University for the July residency. Ten stimulating days of workshops, faculty and graduate presentations and readings, and visiting guests. Yahoo. For full list of...
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