How Teaching High School Prepared Me for Parenthood…
…and how it didn’t. Now that Z has hit the magical age of TWO, my life has moved from the Fast Lane to the Super Fast Lane…with nightly visits to the Family Bed (Of Pain) [more on the Family Bed (Of Pain) in a future post]. Yet occasionally in the Super Fast Lane, we take … Read more
Prologue Problems
A Friday Free-for-All [in which our heroine obsesses about writerly things] I’ve been reading literary agent Mary Kole’s blog, kidlit.com. Right now she’s doing a series of critiques on story beginnings and her first critique post caught me by surprise. The author wrote one word: Preface, and Kole stopped immediately to comment “Ah, our first … Read more
Why Mr. Penguin Can’t Ride a Bike
Mr. Penguin can do many things. He can wear your cloth diapers and your t-shirts and onesies. He can sit on your potty. He can lie down in the cradle while you rock him. He can say grace. He can sit in your high chair and eat the pretend food you spoon in the general … Read more
Two Rules of Storytelling
I posted a version of this elsewhere long ago, but the topic warrants more attention. I am the Public, and this is my Outcry. 1) Do not leave the story open-ended. I didn’t sign up to read this book or watch this show so that I can figure out my own ending. It is not … Read more
