SO. HERE IS TAKEAWAY NUMBER ONE! A couple of years back I was advised that reading Alex Rider would be a good thing for my writing. To read like a writer and see an action novel unfold. Because of the source of the recommndation I found the first book, published in 2000, and gobbled it…
Category: Art & Craft
Reflections: SCBWI NYC 2015
The NYC conference is a mash-up of greeting friends, meeting new people, get-togethers with regional members and the scheduled events. I always hope there is something I can take from the presentations be they keynotes or breakouts sessions or even intensives. Last year it was Jack Gantos who stayed with me for long after the…
face blind
Standing at the registration table at a writing conference I overhear famous author #1 say to famous author #2, “I’m face blind. I can’t remember a person to save my soul.” Prosopagnosia, also called face blindness, is an impairment in the recognition of faces. According to FaceBlind.org with research centers at Dartmouth College, Harvard and University…
make every word count
In HOW I LIVE NOW, Meg Rosoff does that. The book is sparse, stark, and so is the topic and detail. Yet, without fail, we are in the moment. It is a stunning accomplishment that. And, that it is about dystopian times when we have not only long stories but trilogies filling the booksellers shelves,…
LA SCBWI WowZer!
What I love about the international SCBWI conferences: I can attend. Just attend. I can go to all the keynotes, panels, breakouts, socials and extras I want. I AM NOT IN CHARGE! And that is awesome. I look for craft based presentations and wowzer! just sit and listen to keynotes. THEN I can also line up…