One thing I’ve realized while drafting my last three middle grade novels is that writing the first 30 pages is “easy.” I’ve heard other novelists say the same thing. And then, you run smack dab into a DEAD END. You realize that, at its deepest level, you don’t know what your story is about. You… Read More
Today I was thinking about Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Written by Lewis Carroll and published in 1865, it was not a book that I read as a child. Recently I bought a copy of my own because, after all, it is a rabbit who sets the events of the plot in motion: “Alice started to… Read More
“Coming to Light” is a documentary film about the incredible life and photography of Edward S. Curtis that a friend and I saw at the Film Society of Minneapolis-St. Paul on Sunday afternoon. After learning about Curtis’s creative journey, there was no doubt that he paid an enormous price personally, financially, and emotionally for his… Read More