the writing process

Jul 20

INTRODUCING . . . the “Bigfoot & Dodo” Series!

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Books take forever and the waiting is *not* the hardest part. – Just for fun, Audrey Vernick and I started writing together about 10 years ago — we bonded over our love of James Marshall’s “George and Martha” books. We worked on and off and, though we finished more than a dozen stories, never...

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Jun 22

Let’s Hear It for Very, Very Short Chapters!

jimmy

– A friend recently picked up This Is Happiness by Niall Williams.  That’s a book I often praise. I love its deep Irishness and humor. She laughed at the opening chapter, which I had forgotten: It had stopped raining. That was it. – – There are many, many more words that come later, but there are...

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