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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 Children's Theater, Writing for children on May 28th, 2008
Last summer, I made costumes for the Rocky Mountain Theater for Kids. After pulling together approximately 110 costumes in 8 weeks, I realized that it’s REALLY not what I want to do any more. Though it was fun to find out how well I’d retained the skills I learned in undergraduate school and honed in [...]
Posted in Children's Theater on May 13th, 2008
Being both a (semi) retired theatrical costumer and a children’s writer, I have a natural affinity for children’s theater. Which is why, when I heard a few years ago that a very talented woman, Sara Brown of the
Shoestring Children’s Theater
in Denver, was looking for books by Colorado children’s authors to adapt into plays, I offered my early chapter book, Dragon Dilemma, as a possibility. [...]
P.S. McFadden (Miss Pat) writes
award winning
fiction and non-fiction for and about children, as well as teaching materials
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