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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, Self-publishing on Jun 25th, 2008
Warning: I’m feeling a bit grumpy today, so the following post will contain a certain amount of ranting.
One of the biggest challenges I’ve faced in writing for the informify web site is having to learn a whole new style of writing with a whole new set of more-or-less- incomprehensible rules. Now, instead of [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Self-publishing, Writing for children on May 24th, 2008
I’m finally ready to blog again after a couple of frantic weeks of packing and moving. It seems appropriate that I’m getting back into gear on World Turtle Day. Not only does this nicely tie into my publishing company, Green Turtle Press, and my middle-grade fantasy novel, Turtle Island, (the title of which I took from one of [...]
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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