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Tag: Writing

June 30, 2022 by Amanda MacGregor

The importance of play: how turning a problem into a game can foster creative problem-solving skills, a guest post by Candy James

Being a parent teaches you many things, none more so than these two sageries: long, difficult tasks do not get any easier with age, and problems rarely go away by themselves.

June 7, 2022 by Amanda MacGregor

“You Mean Not Everybody Feels Like This?”: Self-Discovery Through Writing, a guest post by Andrew Joseph White

When I was growing up, if I had a big feeling about something, books were the first place I turned…but there was nothing on the shelves that could have helped me learn about being queer, or trans, or autistic.

June 3, 2022 by Amanda MacGregor

Doing the Impossible: Re-Envisioning Story Through Revision, a guest post by Shawn K. Stout

It took eleven re-envisionings over six years, but now, holding the finished book in my hands, I know that what feels impossible often isn’t.

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Never Too Much, a guest post by Catherine Bakewell

May 6, 2022 by Amanda MacGregor

When I was in middle school, the word “nerd” was thrown around a lot, a word that then meant someone who was too much, who loved something too deeply. This passion was a delicate flame within me when I was 14, a little older than Elissa, the protagonist of my novel, We Are the Song.

Writing Disability and Immigration from a Place of Wholeness, a guest post by Natalia Sylvester

May 5, 2022 by Amanda MacGregor

When I finally found my way to writing a novel about growing up as an immigrant with hip dysplasia, it was this wholeness—not parts of me segmented into boxes—that guided me. I wrote Breathe and Count Back from Ten because the only way I can imagine creating books in a world that draws boundaries around my identity is to write myself beyond them.

Fairy Tales and Final Girls in THE GHOSTS OF ROSE HILL, a guest post by R. M. Romero

May 3, 2022 by Amanda MacGregor

As much as my younger self loved final girls like Gerda from The Snow Queen, Buffy Summers, and Clarice Starling however, these characters didn’t exactly reflect my lived experience. They were all white women and they were all at least coded as being Christian, if not outright stated to be so. So in 2019, I decided to write a final girl who was like me: Ilana Lopez, the biracial heroine of The Ghosts of Rose Hill. 

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Series are the “Comfort Food” of the Book World, a guest post by Erin Soderberg Downing

May 2, 2022 by Amanda MacGregor

I like to think series books are the “Comfort Tacos” of the book world; they pull you in and swaddle you up in a world where you know you belong, know you feel comfortable, and where everything is just a little easier.

Liz Lawson and Kathleen Glasgow in Conversation

April 29, 2022 by Amanda MacGregor

The authors of THE AGATHAS talk about their experience writing their book, a story about two teen girls who go rogue to solve the disappearance of Brooke Donovan, the richest and most popular girl at their high school.

Fact Versus Fiction in Middle Grade Literature, a guest post by Frank Morelli

April 27, 2022 by Amanda MacGregor

The simple truth is, there has never been a time in history when simply knowing the truth was such a monumental task. Now imagine what that task must look like to a young reader.

Growing Up Geek: Writing What I Know, a guest post by F. T. Lukens

April 22, 2022 by Amanda MacGregor

I might have not lived in a castle or ruled a kingdom. I have never needed to break a curse by finding my one true love. But I have wielded magic to defeat a moat monster more than once either in my imagination or in a video game or with a deck of cards.

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