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He Said, She Said

13.12.2010

I love when students stretch, putting their imagination to work in their writing, to get beyond the ubiquitous story about a freckled-faced, red-haired tomboy with green eyes. But there’s one place I do not want to see imaginative writing—in dialogue tags. Please, purge the need to tell us how characters speak lines. Edit out all [...]

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Ready, Set, Write

09.10.2010

I love it when a student discovers something on his own, even if he didn’t know what he discovered at the time. Like a lot of some writers I have been known to obsess, worry, over analyze, fret about how to start a new idea, manuscript, story. I have a bad habit tend to want the story to [...]

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What Anne Said

03.10.2010

I love reading other writing blogs (okay, and knitting ones, too). One of my favorite blogs is Anne Bingham: Making It Up As I Go. Her last post on October 1st—”So You Want to Write for Kids?”—is a fantastic primer for any new writer. I hope you pop over and check it out. Children’s writers—all [...]

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Ignore Your Character?

14.07.2010

Okay, ignore may be misleading. New ideas, for me, come via a character. My protagonist is the first thing that shows him or herself. And, up to now, I’ve been going with that character and focusing on him or her. But I also have such a difficult time with first drafts that I keep thinking [...]

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