Kristin Wolden Nitz
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I made a new category for my current work-in-progress: Calyn. That’s the name of the main character. It shows some of the issues that sometimes come with a massive rewrite.
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The Hobbit
Fuse #8’s unscientific poll featuring the Top 100 Chapter Books featured another one of my favorite books today: THE HOBBIT. It was ninth on my list, but on another day, I might have put it higher. It created a deep…
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Setting up Obstacles
I was stuck for well over a week in a key scene for my current manuscript. But after pounding head and fingers against the keyboard, I finally made my way through it. The next few pages flew by, largely intact. But then I…
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Skype Visit
I did a brief Skype visit for Peachtree’s Author Mingle and 2010 Spring Book Look today. For a few minutes, I talked to the visiting teachers about my books and the topics of my school visits. I did have to explain…
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Conspiracy of Kings
When I scheduled the dentist appointment last fall, I clearly didn’t know this would be the day that Megan Whalen Turner’s CONSPIRACY OF KINGS would be coming out. But thanks to good flossing habits, it was a rather quick and…
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Suspect: The Cover!
This bit of fun turned up in my email. It’s not at all what I expected, but is quite fun nevertheless!
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Smacking Characters
Sometimes characters do stupid things. These stupid things often complicate the life of the protagonist. That’s often all to the good. But here’s something to think about with story. It’s fine for characters to make mistakes, but the reader has to…
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Writers of Oxford
Fuse#8 posted 26-30 in her Top 100 children’s novels. THE DARK IS RISING was on the list. When I found out that Susan Cooper had attended lectures by C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, I thought briefly back to the ghost tour of Oxford that…
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Conspiracy of Kings
Attention all fans of Megan Whalen Turner’s Attolia books! You’ll find a 60+ page excerpt of Conspiracy of Kings on the HarperCollins website. Naturally, they didn’t put it up there as a public service. The chapters are there so you’ll read it…
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Rolling, Rolling, Rolling
For many writers, the wheels of publishing tend to turn more slowly than the wheels of justice. I know of picture book authorswriters whose projects hit the shelves close to five years after being accepted by the editor. (Note: Editors and art…
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