Privacy Policy
My article, “Where Are We? Using Setting & Description in Creative, Yet Useful Ways,” is live on WOW! Women on Writing. It’s a great online mag, you should take a look.
Classic advice to beginning fiction writers: Show, Don’t Tell. I taught several sessions to teachers last week and they all nodded. Great advice. But how do you DO that in practical terms? How do you teach students to Show, Don’t Tell? Show, Don’t Tell: Why? In the old days of storytelling, it was fine to [...]
Thanks to John Bonk for the ShoutOut about using my workbook, Novel Metamorphosis as he revised his novel, Boondoggle. It has just sold to Bloomsbury for a 2012 publication! Big Congratulations, John!
I’m getting much closer to actually starting my new novel, but I’m still asking myself a crucial question. What is the cost of success for the main character? Loss of innocence. If you write a bildungsroman novel, that genre which take a main character from
Meet Cynthia Leitich Smith Cynthia Leitich Smith is the New York Times and Publishers Weekly best-selling author of ETERNAL and TANTALIZE (both Candlewick). Her award-winning books for younger children include JINGLE DANCER, INDIAN SHOES and RAIN IS NOT MY INDIAN NAME (all HarperCollins). Cynthia’s upcoming releases include HOLLER LOUDLY (Dutton, Nov. 2010), BLESSED (Candlewick, Feb. [...]
Summer time is inevitably full of stops and starts in our writing. There are vacations, the pull of a sunny day, kids’ activities and much more. For me, I’m teaching several professional development classes this summer; local teachers must attend 60 hours of PD/year and often focus on this requirement during the summer. Great work [...]
Privacy Policy