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Some thoughts on writing from Donna Jo Napoli

October 4, 2011

I’ve been collecting quotes from writers and editors for the past 18 years or so.   In fact, I just delivered a talk at the Michigan SCBWI’s fall conference on Mackinac Island that shared the quotes that I’ve been collecting for the past 18 years.  I had about two pages worth of them from various events … More Some thoughts on writing from Donna Jo Napoli

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Reading the Griffin…Out Loud

October 1, 2009

Perhaps one of my favorite writing tricks of all time is to read every single word out loud. I do this for short stories and articles, cover letters and query letters, nonfiction books and novels.  Any novelist out there might be thinking that this would take a lot of time. Too much time in fact.  … More Reading the Griffin…Out Loud

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