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Middle grade

“Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.” —Anne Lamott

08.05.2011

When I first studied writing, an instructor asked me if I was a long writer or a short writer. Of course, I said long. Everyone wants to write novels, right? Except I’m not a long writer. I write short. I read something interesting (though don’t remember where), that short writers have a hard time keeping [...]

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Who Will Win?

02.11.2010

I hate nags. In people, they’re bad enough. But in characters, worse. You’d think having a character heel you to the point of annoyance would be a good thing. And ordinarily it is. Just not when you’re trying to run away from said character and their story, which is what I’ve been trying to do—rather [...]

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Eeney, Meeny, Miney, Mo…

30.06.2010

Surprises? I can take or leave them. Yesterday, I loved them. I’ve been keeping my distance from my MG WIP, circling around it, poking at it with a stick. Just when I was ready to chew myself out for procrastinating not sitting down and working on it, a rush of ideas found me—for another manuscript [...]

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Now What?

09.06.2010

So I’ve finished my draft of my middle grade work-in-progress. Okay, it’s draft 3 1/2. Sort of. This has been such a haphazard project, written is spurts that were both out of sequence and sometimes out of sync—certainly a pantser of a chapter book. But now that I have a working draft of the story, [...]

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