I’ve long lost count of how many classrooms I have visited, either in-person or via Skype. These days a majority of my visits are with Skype, which saves time and money for all concerned. Regardless, down the years it has always fascinated me that the core questions I’m asked are often the same. It doesn’t
Over the past few weeks, in a number of venues, I have been asked: “What is your writing process?” I’m happy to give an answer as long as it is understood that I have NO notion that what I do constitutes rules for writing. Grammar and spelling have rules (which can sometimes be ignored) but
I won’t suggest I knew Lee Bennett Hopkins well. Nor was I engaged in his passion, poetry. But I did know him for a great many years and considered him a friend. It would have been around 1971 when I first met Lee in an elevator in the Random House building. We were going down
Stay tuned for my next blog entry on Tuesday, August 20th. I hope your summer is going well. Have you had time to catch up on your reading?
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This summer we are re-running my most-read blogs from the past year, in case you didn’t have an opportunity to read them the first time around. I’ve rewritten each one of these, so even if you’ve read them before, you may wish to read them again! Here is the tenth of those articles: I am
This summer we are re-running my most-read blogs from the past year, in case you didn’t have an opportunity to read them the first time around. I’ve rewritten each one of these, so even if you’ve read them before, you may wish to read them again! Here is the ninth of those articles: In the
This summer we are re-running my most-read blogs from the past year, in case you didn’t have an opportunity to read them the first time around. I’ve rewritten each one of these, so even if you’ve read them before, you may wish to read them again! Here is the eighth of those articles: I am
This summer we are re-running my most-read blogs from the past year, in case you didn’t have an opportunity to read them the first time around. I’ve rewritten each one of these, so even if you’ve read them before, you may wish to read them again! Here is the seventh of those articles: I recently
This summer we are re-running my most-read blogs from the past year, in case you didn’t have an opportunity to read them the first time around. I’ve rewritten each one of these, so even if you’ve read them before, you may wish to read them again! Here is the sixth of those articles: My wife
This summer we are re-running my most-read blogs from the past year, in case you didn’t have an opportunity to read them the first time around. I’ve rewritten each one of these, so even if you’ve read them before, you may wish to read them again! Here is the fifth of those articles: Books, to