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So I’ll be doing this for the next four weeks!  Kidlit Summer School. What could be better than diving into a little character development over the summer? Who wants to join me?

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What does an RV trailer dealer, a crossword puzzle master, a doctor, and a lawyer have in common? (And this is the not the start of a bad joke!) These were all the people I spoke with to research my latest book, Hidden Truth (think middle grade Erin Brokovich).

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Last leg of revision.  Time to read and reread and then do it all over again.  This is my favorite part of the process. When I’m almost there.  When I can read my story from start to finish and can see that the pieces are all there. 

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What’s the point?  I ask myself this question often. It keeps me focused while I write, and to be honest, while I live.  I’m the kind of gal who likes to understand and identify my purpose, my goals and my motivations.  Quite simply, I like clarity.

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Fear.  Nothing paralyzes or re-routes me like fear.  Bungee jumping – not happening. Snakes – I’ll take the long way down the mountain.  You get the point.  So, while attending the VCFA writers’ retreat at Vermont College (huge shout out to Sarah Aronson and Cindy Faughnan for once again putting together an amazing retreat ) when speaker and author extraordinaire Jennifer Jacobson shared that I had to uncover where I wouldn’t go in my writing and then write about that,

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Guilt.  It swallows you up, then spits you back out.  We all know the weight, the angst, the twisting gut that attaches with guilt.  I’ve recently spent a lot of time with guilt. My latest revisions center around the guilt felt by a thirteen-year-old boy for something horrible he may have done. 

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Who’s with me on this one?

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