Category: writing

                                       Thanks so much to Diane over at Writer and Dreamer at work, (click and read, people!) for choosing A Million Words as a Sunshine Award recipient! Diane is a part of the community of bloggers that participate in Perfect Picture Book Friday, and I am honored that she…

I must confess that I have been in a bit of a writing rut lately. I haven’t had much trouble revising my manuscripts to smithereens, but I have had more than a smidge of trouble writing anything new. So when I read about this Valentine’s Day writing challenge on Friday,…

I want to be here right now telling you how great this Newbery Challenge is going. How I am enjoying every word written by our brilliant, award-winning, children’s writing forefathers. But I am struggling. To be on track, I should be at least on book 6. But as it stands,…

Being a writer was never on the list of things I wanted to be when I grew up. I didn’t really consider myself a creative type, so it just didn’t seem like a good fit. Lawyer? sure. But a writer? I just couldn’t see it. Maybe that’s why it took…

Someone, somewhere, at some point, said something that goes a little like this: You have to write a million crummy words before you actually start to write some good ones.  So I thought I’d better start purging those million words and get to the good stuff. Malcolm Gladwell, in OUTLIERS,…