When I was writing my withdrawal letter to Superintendent Sconzo yesterday, I looked up the source information for my quote from Ella Wheeler Wilcox. I was thrilled to discover it was from a longer poem on the topic. (I knew the quote from the opening of JFK, so I never knew the context.) I thought […]
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Because I Know Better is No Excuse
Maybe you’ve seen the hubbub on Twitter and Facebook and blogs, blogs, and more blogs. Ellen Hopkins, New York Times bestseller extraordinaire and writer of tales that need to be written, has been uninvited from the 2011 Humble ISD Teen Lit Fest. I was supposed to participate in that festival, too. (As were Melissa de la […]
The Book of Buts and Ellipses….
Writing every book is different. Your process changes or you have to shake things up because the story is unique or you’re just in a different mood when you write it. Sometimes, too, you get into writing ruts. I don’t mean like writer’s block–which I don’t believe in–but more like a scratched record that keeps […]
There Be Virgos
When I was in college I got one of those mini books at Barnes and Noble about Virgos (those born between August 23 and September 22). Before that I had always been a bit (a lot) skeptical about astrology. Stars and silk scarves and mysterious fortunetellers. But as I read through the lists of typical […]
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