Writers have to be versatile. In addition to cranking out our masterpieces, we work day jobs, parent, teach, write greeting cards and advertisements, waitress, bar-tend, edit, blog, and etc. This is nothing new. One of the main...
Read More1Many moons ago or so (I have difficulty keeping track of time), we were discussing the NY Times depressing article about the picture book market. I had a hard time believing that parents would really eschew those extraordinary...
Read MoreAbout revision, I find myself telling writers: Be neither the doting parent, who blindly adores every word; nor the critical parent, who destroys the joy and pleasure of the process through self battery. Be that balanced parent...
Read MoreClaire’s entry spoke eloquently of the challenges we face as writers. Anne’s boggled my mind with all of the things that I should be doing to forward my career, at the cost of…writing time, so I found it very...
Read MoreDesperately Seeking Snoozin’ may be having connundrums about narrators, but she has a knack for metaphor. I love the image of her dog digging up the back story. A lot of questions come to my mind, like for what age is she...
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