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...
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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...
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...
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...
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
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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...
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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...
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