Author: Claire Rudolf Murphy

Day Five – Residency Fever

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...

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Distopian YA Novels

My 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....

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The F Word

Good 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...

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The Antagonist Never Changes?

So 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...

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