I get lots of questions about writing—the craft of it, what my work day is like, how to begin a project. For those of you who are local (Twin Cities area or SE MN), I’m teaching a class on August 25th, from 6 to 9 p.m., at Crossings at Carnegie. I’m including the class info […]
Pretty Amazing
Rebecca Stead’s When You Reach Me is being touted as a YA (young adult) novel, and I’m not sure why. I think it would be appropriate for precocious fourth and fifth graders, too. In fact, Monica Edinger at Educating Alice read it to her fourth grade class (an early edition of it, because it just […]
If You Want to Write
Last Thursday evening, at my Rochester Art Center reading, a woman asked, “When did you start calling yourself an author?” It’s a good question, one that, I’m sure, every artist asks him- or herself. Does the label come with the simple act of writing? Do you accept the label when you’ve become published…or won an […]
Fiction Writing Suggestions
Today, I feel tapped out–in all ways. I’m not feeling very creative, nor am I getting much writing done. It’s discouraging to have come this far (to the publication stage), then experience such doldrums. But I rest in the fact that it can’t last too long (oh, please, don’t tell me differently!), and we’ll all […]