Following on my post yesterday, great minds thinking alike and all that, my friend Caroline Rose has posted a perfect quote on her blog : ...

TIP: Keep in mind that characters need to change along the way to their story's end. As a certain brilliant editor says, "A c...

Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate n...

This seems like the perfect day for saying thank you to a terrific organization. The Society for Children's Book Writers and Illustrator...

Now this is interesting. In a scary kind of way. Via Cheryl Klein's very thorough book: SECOND SIGHT. (p. 295, if you're looking i...

Today I promised myself to read, all day long. I meant books. Catching up with that pile that's gotten away from me this summer.  This i...

It's a scary thing to be told you need to dig deeper. Especially when you thought that's what you'd already done, writing-wise. ...

Uh Oh. On the way to my way to revision, I found myself with a big roadblock. A fun, intriguing, often baffling one, well worth my time, so ...

This is the meaty part of Cheryl Klein's revision process from the SCBWI NYC Metro evening. Remember, much of what Cheryl teaches is on ...

This morning I'm still working on Part I of Cheryl Klein's notes from the NYC Metro SCBWI revision workshop. In a few days, I hope I...

Could they possibly have known exactly what I would need, at exactly the right time? Just as I was about to pull out a manuscript I'd ...

For those of us raised in the world of proper English grammar and punctuation, where formal writing eschewed things like hastily struck line...

I was once known as the Grammar Queen. I shared that honor with my friend Leslie. We knew the rules, which is important if you want to break...

I'm so glad to see Brooklyn Arden (AKA Cheryl Klein) has taken to blogging again. I missed her there for a while. And her latest post, a...