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SETTING: Books That Hit the Sweet Spot

June 21, 2022 Laura Fineberg Cooper

What is setting in literature? In the simplest of terms, it’s where and when the action of a story takes place. Whether set in a real location or a world drawn from your fertile imagination, in the past, present, or future, setting forms the foundation of every story.

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The research behind the research

January 26, 2021 Carrie Charley Brown

Making sense of words, meaning, worlds, characters, and structures is what we do when we write. Whether fiction or nonfiction, we are called to research every element to enable the best reader-experience.

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Is Reading Part of Your Writing Diet?

January 31, 2020 Carrie Charley Brown

Writing picture books is not easy. It is a concentrated, deep, and selective process which we consider an art.

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Blog Mash-Up: ReFoReMo THINK QUICK

January 8, 2019 Carrie Charley Brown

The free online education offered during Reading for Research Month (ReFoReMo) challenges writers to read picture books for writing research. Each weekday of March features

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Priceless Perspectives

December 8, 2017 Carrie Charley Brown

What one professional hails as genius, another may label as slight. I’m challenging you to gather perspectives.

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…and then I read THE 100

August 1, 2017 Marianne Knowles

I’m a stickler for getting things right. Scientific or historical inaccuracies REALLY BOTHER me. On the outside I’m polite and forgiving, but inside? I rail

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