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If You Want To Write For Kids, You Need To Hang Out With Kids

“If You Can Stand Us, Come Back” The year was 2000. I felt led of the Lord to begin helping out with the youth at our church. I wasn’t sure what I would do. I knew I didn’t want to … Continue reading

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Seeing the Extraordinary in the Ordinary – A Novelist’s Desired Trait

I blame myself for not often enough seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary. Somewhere in his journals Dostoevsky remarks that a writer can begin anywhere, at the most commonplace thing, scratch around in it long enough, pry and dig away … Continue reading

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