Playing Well With Editors

 

 

by Sean McCollum

I have been freelancing for 20 years, first while I was still working in Scholastic’s classroom magazine division in New York, then stepping out on my own in 1995. I have written more than 30 nonfiction books, bunches of magazine articles for kids and adults, content for reading programs, [...]

January 30th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , | Category: writing | 2 comments

That Art Thing, How Hard Can That Be?

By Whiney Writer

 

OK, I have to be honest here. This writing thing sometimes wears me out. There’s the thinking part of it. Not that I waste a lot of time on that but it all adds up. What with the plotting (at first I thought they said “plodding” and I figured that [...]

January 23rd, 2012 | Tags: , , | Category: illustration, Whiney Writer, writing | Leave a comment

Multiple Points of View

 

 

by Jane M. H. Bigelow

To paraphrase Ms. Whiny Writer, writing about using multiple points of view (POV) is hard. They have a lot going for them, and against them. Personally, I enjoy them. Well, except when they make my head hurt.

Cue the dueling POVs!

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Cavalier: Multiple points of view [...]

January 16th, 2012 | Tags: , , | Category: writing | Leave a comment

Dreams and Writing

 

by Laura K. Deal

Robert Stone said, “…dreams and making fiction are two ways of relating to something that is, in fact, out there. I suppose it’s that part of the universe that isn’t you, which is most of it.”*  Creating fiction is a more structured process than having a dream, but the [...]

January 9th, 2012 | Tags: , , , | Category: dreams, writing | 2 comments

Small Word Counts/Large Ideas

 

Picture Books with Staying Power

I’m looking at three small favorite picture books today, anniversary editions that just seem to keep on going and never disappoint, no matter how many times I share them with young readers:

WHOSE MOUSE ARE YOU? by Robert Kraus, pictures by Jose Aruego, published by Simon & Schuster, [...]

January 2nd, 2012 | Tags: , , | Category: writing | 5 comments