A writer must always be prepared to do research. No matter what the genre. Because if your reader discovers errors in your facts, you will lose their respect and their readership. An author cannot afford to have this happen.
If you’ve followed my progress over the years, you would have seen that I’ve [...]
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A friend gave me this link to Robin Friedman’s Interviews with Editors. It looks like a great resource for writers of children’s books.
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Following my research for writing chapter books for children aged 8 to 12 (middle grade), I’ve been writing a rough plan for the story to help get the details right.
I’ll be aiming for approximately 30,000 words in total.
The first quarter of the book is planned. It’s exciting to see things fall into place and [...]
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In February, I went to an author reading. The author was Garth Nix and he read Drowned Wednesday (Keys to the Kingdom, Book 3). At the time I also bought the book (and had it autographed ) but I never got around to reading it. Until now.
The first two books - [...]
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You would have noticed by the sidebar that I’ve been reading The Little Country by Charles de Lint. Last night I finished it.
What did I think?
It started out really well, very interesting. There are two stories running parallel with each other. At first, I enjoyed one story more than the other but [...]
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Do people read the rules when they join an online community? I don’t think so because if they did I wouldn’t have to waste my time explaining why I’ve just denied their submission to join a private forum the day after they join the message board (which I no longer do because if they [...]
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