Sunday, December 19, 2010

Mom's Story

It's not too late to consider giving a gift of love this holiday season: Mom’s Story, A Child Learns About MS, http://www.marynickum.com.

Sunday, December 12, 2010

More on conflict

Five main areas of conflict:
1.      Man against self,
2.      Man against man,
3.      Man against society,
4.      Man against nature,
5.      Man against God.

Friday, December 10, 2010

Conflict

Food For Thought...
Does your story use its external and internal conflicts to strengthen each other?

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

New from Scholastic

The shift in picture books: Publishers are publishing about 25 to 30 percent fewer picture book titles than they used to as some parents want their kids to read more challenging books at younger ages. The new trend is leading to popular picture book characters such as Pinkalicious, Splat Cat and Brown Bear, Brown Bear showing up in Beginning Reader books.