A late August entry in my journal includes this little ditty dedicated to parents of teenagers in summertime: They were laughing, he and she, in their private cafe, before you stepped out of your room grown tall beyond towers of blocks, beyond models, stories, construction paper, beyond anything you built together. They drained their cups and turned their faded faces, remembering… Continue reading Three Cheers for the Big Yellow Bus
Category: writing
I am on Vacation
See you next Friday.
When Good Ideas go Bad
I keep a writing journal in which I write scenes by hand, work out plots, explore characters, make note of submissions, and - most important of all - jot down ideas for new books. I've kept writing journals for years and they contain some wonderful work that I've used in my books or plan to use in… Continue reading When Good Ideas go Bad
Friday Fable: the Writer and the Missing Links
You may know the old story, "The Fox and the Goat:" Prologue: A fox fell into a well and couldn't get out on his own. He swam there for a while making plans... 5 hours later: A goat was walking through the farm, just minding his own business eating a shirt, when the fox called to him from inside the… Continue reading Friday Fable: the Writer and the Missing Links
Friday Fable: The Writer and the Word Limit
You may have heard the old story, The Crow and the Pitcher: A crow was nearly dead of thirst when he spied a pitcher of water on a picnic table just beside the dried-up river bed. He flew over and tried to take a sip but, alas, the pitcher was close to empty. Only an inch… Continue reading Friday Fable: The Writer and the Word Limit
Catherine Austen 