Are You Burning Out?
carriejonesbooks For writers, that feeling of lack of achievement and incompetence is pretty easy to get. It's a subjective business and other writers' successes are often right in your face, right?
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Dear Bully, You Are Ruining Things Because We Are Awesome And You Are Not
So about nine years ago, DEAR BULLY, the anthology of authors telling their stories of being bullied, or standing by, or being bullies was released. Carrie was the co-editor for…
As writers, how do we give kids hope?
As I struggle to finish the first draft of my new novel before my April 1 deadline, I can’t stop thinking about hope and suffering and how it relates to…
Florida Man and the Queen of Kittens
Stories are about people having emotions. Writers who write from their heads (outlining like crazy, etc,) are often missing out on the emotion because they are analyzing how to show…
Writing Without Labels
I was just doing a visiting residency at a great school in Vermont and a seventh grader said to his teacher, “Okay, Boomer.” Full disclosure: The teacher was thirty-six years…