“It kinda feels like being an elephant in a room full of elephants, speaking on the topic of how to be an elephant…. I’m not sure what I know about being an elephant.” This is how John Green (author of Looking for Alaska) started his speech about writing at the Society for Children’s Book Writers [...]
It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year!!!!!
August 1, 2007 – 2:42 pm
No, it’s not Christmas yet… it’s CONFERENCE TIME!!!!! Can’t you hear the “clang, clang, clang” of reclusive writers and artists everywhere, busting open the manacles that bind to them their keyboards? Friday, they’ll be brushing the confetti of shredded stories off their sleeves, crawling out of their caves, and blinking up into the dazzling LA [...]
