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Great Writing: The Interviews
Snack on these interviews with top professionals in the field of writing for children. You'll get full of advice, inspiration and plenty of practical "how to"! Just click, read, and learn. Then practice, practice, practice...
 
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       Jo Kittenger                Peggy J. Shaw                 Hester Bass      
 
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     Denise Vega                     Erin Dealey                  Sarah Campbell  
  
 
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             Susan Raab          Diane Z. Shore       
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Quips, Quotes & Quickies:
 

  • "Just because you have little contact with your sales reps doesn't mean you can't let them know you're not just an ISBN. Time again to pull out your thank-you notes. Ask your editor if you can send notes to the reps, and more than likely she'll cough up the names or send them along for you."  - Putting Your Passion into Print by Arielle Eckstut and David Henry Sterry

  • "I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again." - Oscar Wilde

  • "If a publisher asks you to send your proposal/manuscript, we recommend overnighting or messengering your material. It's the top-priority factor, thus lessening your chances of getting lost in that vast morass of paper. Plus you'll have a record of receipt." - Putting Your Passion into Print by Arielle Eckstut and David Henry Sterry
Writing Snacks' Monthly Tip and Tidbits:
Dana Cleveland Konop


Melissa: Doing yoga with your manuscript?

Dana: Try it! 
Melissa: Are you sure this is right?
Dana: Yep! It's called the core plot pose.

The following excerpt is from Plot
: how to build short stories and novels that don't sag, fizzle, or trail off in scraps of frustrated revision - and how to rescue stories that do by Ansen Dibell

"...you should be able to express the core plot in a sentence or two, in about the same space and style as program listings in TV Guide. In fact, it might help to study a few issues of TV Guide and one of the several paperback guides to movies on TV, and see how such capsule summaries are done. Practice writing a few about things you've read recently."