Heart of YA Darkness

by | Jun 21, 2011 | Reading & Writing, Things I Like...

As soon as I read that now infamous Wall Street Journal article “Darkness too Visible”, which slammed Cheryl Rainfield’s Scars along with much of today’s YA fiction, I rushed to get her book. I’m sure many others did too.  In my day there were no YA books to give an...

a first draft kind of hike

by | May 3, 2011 | Reading & Writing, Things I Like...

First drafts make me crazy. I’m a reviser. I’ll happily spend days cutting, developing and shaping a story. But how to produce a has-potential-but-needs-work ms in the first place? Even with characters, setting and plot in mind for a new project, a blank...