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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, Self-publishing, Writing for the Web on Jun 17th, 2008
I’ve just started a new job, writing for an online news webpage, Informify.com.
I’m learning a lot about the difference between writing for print and writing for the web. It seems that reading on a computer screen accesses a different part of the brain than reading from a page. This is why it’s so hard [...]
P.S. McFadden (Miss Pat) writes
award winning
fiction and non-fiction for and about children, as well as teaching materials
for various educational publishers.
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