P.S. McFadden: Children’s Writer

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 [...]

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I’m in the midst of rewriting a YA novel for the third time and was explaining to a friend of mine what I was doing.
“I’m adding a new character to the first chapter, and moving the last scene to the fourth chapter and ratcheting up my main character’s angst another notch or two and shifting [...]

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