MORE 'WRITING' POSTS
Cultivating a story idea into a fully realized story is always an unexpected journey. It starts with the wish of a story idea, of what it can be. Then it blossoms into the best laid plans, the outline. After that? That’s the magic.
As always from Dee, a thoughtful, compassionate exploration the changing interior and exterior landscapes of middle school life.
I am so proud of The Someday Daughter. Not because it came to me easily, but because I confronted so many parts of myself in its creation.
A few years ago, I set off on an adventure that would eventually leave me both alone and alone in the woods…for days on end.
Every writer gets the same question. Whether they write for adults or kids. Whether they are at a school or a cocktail party. “Where did you get the idea for the book?”
I’d start off with an intro paragraph here, but you’d probably just skip it. Let me just say that these rules only apply to me.
Looking back, it seems ridiculous that I, an avid book lover and organiser extraordinaire, did not realise that being a librarian was the perfect job for me.
The Loveboat, Taipei Trilogy’s Finale: Exploring Uncharted Places, a guest post by Abigail Hing Wen
|I found myself writing about characters, events, and experiences that I've never read in a novel or seen on a screen before.
I get excited whenever I see complicated intergenerational queer existence reflected in books for young people. I felt motivated to write my own.
They are characters with struggles. Characters with strong emotions. Characters who are different than us in some way. And none of those things should make a character—or person—unlikable.
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