authors
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awards
- 2010 Newbery Winner
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characters
- Difficult Topics for Young Audiences
- Difficult characters, difficult topics
- Sports: Passionate characters
- Strengthen Your Villain
- Villains to Imitate
- Villains Don't Always Wear Black
- My Character's Whispering Secrets
- 5 Questions about First Person POV
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- The Versatile Point of View
- This I Believe
- When Characters Show Their Weakness
- 5 Secrets about your Characters' Secrets
- Improving Character Description With Body Language
- 5 Questions about Characters' Desires
- 5 Tips on Character Descriptions
- Characters inside
- A Year of Voice Descriptions
- Character roles and jobs
- Character names and nicknames
- Fixing Problem Novels
- Get an Attitude!
- Angel Moments in Your Novel
- Character Description
- Unique Character Dialogue
- Focus Your Story Development
- Emotional structure
- 2 Useful Views of Characters
- Character v. character
- Real Dialogue
- 8 Ways to Re-characterize
contracts
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darcy's books
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odds
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picture books
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plot
- Plotting Difficult Topics: Loss, action
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- Plotting Difficult Topics
- Knitting Subplots Together
- Tie up loose ends
- Powerful Endings
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retreat
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- A Revision Case Study: Eleven by Lauren Myracle.
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- Psychology of Revision: Fear and Humility, Part 2
- Psychology of Revising: Fear & Humility 1
- Psychology of Revision: Hope
- Re-type and Tone
- Jane Yolen on Revision
- 2007 Wisconsin Picturebook Retreat
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voice
- Starting a Novel with Voice
- Narrator's Voice
- Approaching Voice: summary of comments
- How to Approach Voice
- Twisted voices
- 3 Writing Voice Tips
- Name that author!
- Why History Textbooks Put You to Sleep
- Voice Experiments
- POV and Voice
- Voice Friday: Words for Your Voice
- Voice Friday: Lawyers
- Deeper into Voice
- Voice Friday: Point of View
- Voice Friday: Sentence Control
- Voice Friday: Sentences
- Voice Friday: Word Sounds
- Audience Considerations
- Voice Friday: Word Connotations
- Voice Friday: Word Choices
- Vocal Impressions
- The Writer's Voice: What is Voice?
- AR Voice Retreat
writing life
- My Current Works in Progress
- Fear of Failure
- 10 Things That Mean You're a Writer
- Crazy days
- Starting a Novel
- Notebook Work: Looking backwards
- Fair Use Copyright Guidelines
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- Take a Walk
- Spring Inspiration
- 2010 Newbery Winner
- Friday Ideas 2008
- Reports from 2008 SCBWI Conference
- Fire in the Hole
- Tornado and Author Visit
- Career in Writing
- My 2008 Schedule
- Spare to Baroque Writing
- Times and Tides
- Starting Again
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- Aloha
- Originality
- Fall schedule
- Writing rhythms
- Writing v. marketing
- Days of Despair
- Stop and Look
- composting ideas
- The New Beginning
- The end
- Stay the Course
- I'm avoiding my revision
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- First drafts
- Revision metaphor
- Revise or Start Anew
- Time to Write
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- 2 Useful Books on Creativity
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