Author Visit

The other night our local writer's group went to the library to hear author Bill Crider speak about his new book. He is a mystery writer, who also writes under multiple pen names. What an encouragement to us. Most exciting things I learned were about writing for hire, how publishing houses work, why write under a pen name, and the absolute best advice was to write 2-3 pages a day, starting by rewriting the previous days 2-3 pages. He also explained that when writing fiction you don't need to know the end of the story, it is like when you drive a night. You only need to see to the end of the headlights, because by the time you get their you will see to the end of the headlight beams after that point.

And so in light of that Have begun the process of writing a children's chapter book, at the insistance of my son, who has requested an AR test as well. Like most students if it doesn't have AR points he basically is not interested in reading it. What a shame.

I hope this is an encouragement to other writers out there!