Writing for Children: Using Storytelling as a Revision Tool
I admit it. Revision is my least favorite part of writing for children. I prefer to remain in the delicious euphoria of having written the perfect first draft. Can’t I dwell there just a moment longer before I am whisked away into reality?
Birth of a Children’s Book Writer
Once upon a time, there lived a girl who loved to write and I was that girl.
Only, I didn't know I was a writer. I filled hundreds of pages in notebooks with storylines and watched characters dance across the movie screen in my mind. I heard their voices and understood the deepest longing of their hearts…