Three Writing Reads

This weekend I am heading off on a mini-retreat with a good friend. We will be writing, writing and writing. Two goals will drive my writing. Polishing up a new picture book to send out to agents and continuing to work on a middle grade novel. It will be nice to have a focused few days of nothing but writing and reading about writing! Speaking of, my morning blogging travels were focused on that as well. Next are three that caught my eye.

Okay...this first one isn’t just one post, it’s a whole buncha them. Lindsey Carmichael of Ten Stories Up is hosting all Canadian Interviews for the month of July. Her first question to each author is about sharing their typical writing day. I haven’t read them all yet, but the ones I have show just how different we all are in how we process and work. Very important to remember when you are starting out-butt in chair, yes (otherwise the book won’t get written), but once the butt is in that chair? It differs. Some power through without looking back, some edit as they go, some power along one day, edit the next. This week she is featuring non-fiction writers.

Ten Stories Up

And some of you probably already familiar with these sites, but just in case.

http://blog.writersdigest.com/norules/2011/07/13/3GreatBlogsForChildrensWriters.aspx

And here, Elana Johnson talks about her drafting process. She is right about revising the mess after doing a fast draft. I am trying to outline more this go around, but am not sure it’s working. I might just be a fast (ish) drafter who has a whole pile of revision to do after the fact. But, what she talks about here has me intrigued!

YA Author Elana Johnson: Drafting, Drafting