What Makes a Story Awesome
carriejonesbooks I posted this back in June and I’m vaguely burnt out this week, plus I think it’s good advice, so I’m reposting it. Spoiler: I’m not vaguely burnt out. I’m…
Wednesday Writing Wisdom
Don’t Hate the People You Write For, Writing Tip Wednesday
It seems pretty simple, doesn’t it? You write books for readers. You shouldn’t hate your readers or think you’re better than them and yet…? This is one of those blog…
The Best Writers Care
I was just visiting an awesome school in Greensboro, North Carolina talking about my Moe Berg picture book biography and I was telling the kids about how to show not…
Writing Tip Wednesday: Am I Too Quiet?
In this unquiet world, we need quiet books. We need moments of contemplation, of deep empathy, or being sucked into others' stories. In this unquiet world and country where there…
Writing Weirdly – When You aren’t exactly a plotser or a pantser
While I was at Vermont College my first semester, one of the teachers, Alison McGhee, mentioned off-handedly that when she wrote one of her many brilliant, amazing books she wrote…