In writing news, I finished the first draft of the PB. It’s in at 767 words, which is 267 words over target. The set up is too long anyway, so it’s a good candidate for paring. The language is rough, of course. The biggest problem is voice. There’s a POV shift in [...]
I continue to be awed and inspired by Jane Yolen. We’ve never met, unless you count a brief introduction a convention signing line or in a brief “hello, love your work” in a crowded publishers’ cocktail party. Through her online journal and the various speeches posted on the internet, though, I’ve come to understand [...]
I coined a new term today: geoxymoron–a contradiction of places. It’s my idiom for cities and town with names that are contradictions in term.
Manhattan, KS (my favorite)
Rome, GA
Athens, TN
Got any others?
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Printz Medal:
LOOKING FOR ALASKA by John Green
Printz Honor:
BLACK JUICE by Margo Lanagan
I AM THE MESSENGER by Markus Zusak
JOHN LENNON by Elizbeth Partridge
A WREATH FOR EMMETT TILL by Marilyn Nelson
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I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honeybee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.
And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where [...]
