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Children’s books

I’m a Writer in Love…

14.04.2011

…with Scrivener. No, I’m not late to the party. I’ve had Scrivener for a while. But since most of what I write for kids is short (think magazine pieces), there was no point. Word was sufficient. I had put a couple of longer chapter book projects in and they just languished there. Not because of [...]

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Pretty Please, May I …

10.04.2011

A lot of times, students ask me what they should be writing. They want to know what readership age, what genre, what topics. I get a lot of tell me what you want me to do. It puzzles me. Over at My Tangible Art, Lisa had an interesting post about giving yourself permission. I thought [...]

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Get Second Sight

28.03.2011

I’ve been waiting for this book ever since I read in Cheryl Klein‘s blog that she was publishing it. Second Sight is a collection of her talks at various writing conferences, between 2003 and 2010, as well as her blog posts. It was worth the wait. From picture books to YA, Cheryl covers: what makes [...]

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Give Up, Give In, or Muddle Through?

03.03.2011

I knew someone once who loved to read. They had a very strict reading regimen. Only nonfiction. And whatever they started, they started on page one and went through to the last page. No skipping, no skimming. So there. When I told this person I liked to check out the index first, then dip into [...]

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