Monthly Archives: June 2012
Do You Outline?
I think I said in one of my early posts that I did do an outline for my first book. I carried around a stack of note cards and wrote down scenes as I thought of them. I figured about three scenes per … Continue reading
What I Write About
Yes, I did write yesterday, all day. I was only revising ten pages for a critique at a SCBWI conference but I was transposing old verbiage into my current style. Probably would have been easier to rewrite from scratch but … Continue reading
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Tagged dystopia, Guardian, Hunger Games, Margaret Atwood, YA
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So we read, but do we write?
I woke up early (whoops not supposed to start with waking up!), I made coffee and looked out the window at the woods – birds making their racket or cheerful songs depending on your mood, I turned on my computer. … Continue reading
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What’s the one thing that makes everybody a better writer?
It’s not a trick question! The first book I remember reading had stories about Little Red Hen and the later boycotted Little Black Sambo. Grimm’s fairy tales gave me nightmares for many years. The first book I checked out of … Continue reading
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