Shrunken Manuscript Technique Helps Visualize Problems Following my directions for shrinking, Continue Reading
September 28, 2009
First page: An Editor Discusses Why It is Important
First Page: So much from so few words At the AR-SCBWI fall retreat this weekend, Alexandra Continue Reading
August 26, 2009
Goal disaster in Novel Revision
A scene goal must have a showdown I'm revising my WIP novel and I'm at the end of the first Continue Reading
July 21, 2009
CA Retreat
I'm just back from a Novel Revision Retreat in San Rafael, CA. What a great time. I always learn so Continue Reading
June 24, 2009
Endless Revisions?
How Many Times Do you Revise? When do novel or picture book revisions ever end? I'm always a new Continue Reading
May 20, 2009
fall retreats
Speaking Schedule Here's an update on my speaking schedule for the rest of the year. Novel Continue Reading
July 31, 2007
POV and Voice
L asks: "Do you think an author’s ‘voice’ is easier to establish when a novel is written in Continue Reading