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Posted in A Writer's Life, Children's Theater, Self-publishing, Uncategorized, Writing for children, Writing for the Web on Jul 24th, 2008
One of the things I’ve noticed at writer’s conference is the tendency for successful writers to talk about how many rejections they got before finally having something accepted. Sort of like old soldiers comparing war wounds. The message is that you have to be tough and able to handle rejection if you’re going [...]
Posted in A Writer's Life, Writing for the Web on Jul 17th, 2008
Well, I’m no longer a news reporter. Informify is a great site, but also a start-up company running on a shoestring, and the shoestring just snapped. So, it’s back to focusing on writing for children for me. What are some of the things that I learned during my brief sojourn in the [...]
Posted in A Writer's Life on Jul 3rd, 2008
There is a weird kind of alchemy which makes characters come alive on a page. It has to do with what I think of as the “five dimensions of character.”
In geometry, the four dimensions are breadth, depth, height and time. In writing, this translates to the following:
Physical setting–does the story take [...]
P.S. McFadden (Miss Pat) writes
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