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If your story isn't taking off, maybe you're telling it from the wrong perspective. The wrong point of view. I've been known to go on about this. But it's important. I've grappled with it so often it's become a fallback for when things are going badly. If my story is dragging its feet, I reassess. I think, okay, can …
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Earlier this week I dreamed that I wrote a Little Golden Book— but somehow forgot to tell anyone. In the dream, I was flicking through the book (which was illustrated by Lucinda Gifford but in the style of Gabrielle Wang!) and I thought, ‘This is lovely. I must blog about it.’ I don’t know whether …
When I was an aspiring children's author back in the 1980s, the only career guidance I could find was Mem Fox's autobiography. Ahem. Aside from that there was one other book, a textbook, kicking around. But it was fairly lacklustre and I don't recall its title. Other than that, it was just me and me typewritin' machine (it …
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