Friday, April 5, 2013

Genderizing Kids Books

One of my pet peeves, working in a bookstore, is that modern kids' literature is so gender-segregated.  Perhaps it was this way when I was a child, before the advent of YA, but I honestly don't remember it being so. This is really concerning to me because--and I'm fairly certain I've written about this in earlier posts--strong female characters (aka positive role-models...

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

IWSG Post

It's that time again, IWSG, where we share success and insecurities about writing. Last month I made great headway on my WIP.  I separated all of my characters and am writing each of their stories up to the climax, and then I'll tie everything together. I found that when I do it...