This past weekend, I went to the 2010 Springmingle conference sponsored by the Southern Breeze SCBWI chapter.
On Wednesday, I shared some tips about developing your character. Today, I’m going to share some revision techniques.
For me, I love the revision process more than I do writing the draft. Revision allows me to make my characters deeper [...]

This past weekend, I went to the 2010 Springmingle conference sponsored by the Southern Breeze SCBWI chapter.
Cheryl Klein, senior editor of Arthur A. Levine Books (a Scholastic imprint), led an interesting workshop called “Dimensions of Character.”
I’m a plotter first, which means my character arcs come second after the plot idea. I don’t concentrate on character [...]

My good writer friend, Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich, has her debut book out in stores NOW.
Eighth Grade Superzero is a middle-grade novel that I’m going to get my hands on as soon as I can get to a bookstore this week.
Her editor, Cheryl Klein has an excellent post, How to Write a Great Query Letter: [...]