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70/365 by Amy Loves Yah. Used under Creative Commons License. Young writers have to have a certain reckless confidence if they’re going to turn into experienced writers. You have to believe in yourself so much to keep writing — in all but a very few cases, it is an endeavor without great reward, especially [...] Two of my siblings have birthdays this coming week, so yesterday I went to buy birthday cards. It is lazy of me, a writer, to rely on mass-produced sentiments, and, as I looked through the cards, that became all too clear. Most of the sibling-to-sibling cards were about “growing up together” or “when we were [...] I’m doing my third revision of Sliver of Light now, after meeting at Comic-Con with the editor who has been working with me and getting some notes. I wish I could say that this third time go-round, I truly know what I’m doing, but it’s a go-with-instinct thing. Writing a novel isn’t scientific. There are [...] To my knowledge, she never scrapped any of her poetic efforts. With one or two exceptions, she brought every piece she worked on to some final form acceptable to her…. Her attitude to her verse was artisan-like: if she couldn’t get a table out of the material, she was quite happy to get a [...] "Not quite Sophie Beer" by Dan Foy, www.flickr.com/photos/orangeacid/, used under Creative Commons License Via the New York Times Paper Cuts blog, I found “Bad Books for Kids,” an essay on young adult fiction by David Mills, first published in Touchstone, a Christian magazine. Mills expresses his shock at what he calls “commercial depravity” in [...] |
My Opium Den
After some thinking, I realized why I didn't finish this book (even as I racked up late fees from the library): I found the subject matter, the history of the region of England called Sunderland, interesting, but there was nothing about the...
Lovely art by Camilla D'Errico (who should be listed as a co-author) provide mood and texture for this story of a troubled young girl whose fantasy life becomes a bit too real when she visits a website called Make5wishes.com. The authors ar...
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