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Characters: No that’s NOT you. Thanks for reading.

A few days ago, colleague Kate Flora wrote a great post about “character shopping.” It highlights a huge part of what we do — thinking about and creating characters. I often wonder if readers and aspiring writers fully understand what … Continue reading

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Maggie and Me: Same or Different?

There’s a game children play with either pictures or words: which things are the same? Which are different? (Table. Dog. Mouse. Cheese. Which is different?) More advanced versions appear on SAT tests. My kids and I sometimes played that game at the dinner table. (Yes: I was … Continue reading

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