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  • That's not an elementary question at all. Getting started isn't hard for me because wh...k in the voice of a child for a few pages. Something about shifting OUT of the mode I'm working in gets me intere...
  • I completed the 50,000 word goal of NaNoWriMo this year!  Now I'm in the 'tweaking' mode before submitting my 'Baby' t...
  • This is such an important point. Accuracy in data has to include language! I find this...language) as it varies tremendously from one country to another in accent and mode of expression. Have we connec...

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    Behind The Book American Family By Catherine Marshall-Smith “What a long strange trip it’s been,” pretty much sums up my experience writing American Family. What...
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    DEAR DAUGHTERS, I'll make this quick as I know you are busy: If you are a daughter you may have days you do not understand your mother Maybe something on this short...
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    New novel due out in August with Black Rose Writing. Pitch - In COWBOY CODE, a coming-of-age story set in Southwest Virginia during WWII, 14-year-old Bobbie Grey u...

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  • My third column for McSweeney's Internet Tendency, a story about being censored at an adult-themed party in Manhattan's East Village, can be found here: http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/pornwriter/column3.html
  • I think perhaps schools/teachers should reconsider at what grade level the book is taught. Save it until an open discussion of the language and the history of the nove...
  • Love your post. My middle school memories were so imbedded in my psyche/mind/emotions, etc, that my mom and I wrote a book together about the teenage years (she wrote...