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Is this Procrastinating?
Is this Procrastinating? Well, maybe. Or maybe not. I’ve written and rewritten the story, revised and been critiqued and revised and revised again. Meanwhile, years have passed, and now my writer’s...
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A Dilemma in Writing Historical Fiction
I love historical fiction. It is what I want to read and what I want to write for middle grade and for young adult readers. When I go to a writers’ conference and listen to the participants chatter...
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Comments on the 21st Century Children’s Nonfiction Conference, June 14-16, 2013
I attended the inaugural 21st Century Children’s Nonfiction Conference held at SUNY in New Paltz, NY. I don’t currently have a nonfiction manuscript in progress so I skipped the intensives that took...
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Imperfect is the only way to perfect your characters
This post is an email responding to one of my workshop participants who is writing a YA about a 15-year-old boy whose father has early onset Alzheimer’s. The boy is perfect – responsible and loving. He...
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Why Writers Groups?
I don’t have evidence to say how many of our great writers confided their doubts or dreams, not to mention their pages, to anyone. Did F. Scott Fitzgerald read some of his chapters to Zelda? Lillian...
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Getting Away–Not!
I admit that I pushed the pages, fourteen chapters actually, onto an already crowded shelf, sighed and turned away. I had revised and revised and revised, but something more had to happen, my writers...
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I Killed my Mother
I killed my mother, I must confess. And while I’m at it, I should admit I killed my baby brother too. In the interest of full disclosure I should also own up to doing away with an uncle and a few...
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Revising…again by Terry Jennings
As critique group coordinator for my local SCBWI, I’ve met many aspiring authors who come, manuscript in hand and hope in their heart to their first critique session. Sometimes it’s rough. Telling...
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All the Light We Cannot See (but so much more!)
I just finished reading All the Light We Cannot See, and I am inspired and challenged. The story is told primarily from the point of view of a blind girl in France and a German boy, and most of the...
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