Normally at this time in January I am packing my suitcase to leave home for 11 days and go to Hamline University to participate in the residency for the Masters program in Writing for Children and Young Adults. I always am energized by the preparation and the residency. Eleven days with other children's book writers at … [Read more...] about Leaving while staying at home
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Begin With A Bee
Writing is most often a solitary act. We sit with paper and pencil, or computer, by ourselves, and build a story word by word, tear it down, build it again. But there is another kind of writing—collaboration—when we work with friends to create a story that is richer, more textured than what one writer alone might do. … [Read more...] about Begin With A Bee
