by Pat Marcello | Aug 17, 2011 | Literature
I’ve worked with traditional publishing for more than twenty years, and it’s been a real experience. I enjoy writing for publishers, but when it comes time for the royalty checks to come rolling in, they just don’t. What cracks me up is that the...
by Pat Marcello | Jan 31, 2011 | Writing
This issue plagues school children from all over the world: What’s a paragraph, and how do you know when you’re ready for another? This issue also plagues new writers from every genre. Sometimes, they have no idea where to end a paragraph and begin a new...
by Pat Marcello | Jan 17, 2011 | Writing
Are you a new writer? If so, the whole question of “voice” might be confusing for you. I know it was for me at first. I figured that if you wrote, you wrote. Not so! Here are some steps you can take to figure your own writing voice: Choose any topic,...
by Pat Marcello | Nov 26, 2010 | Writing
Most kids love comic books. I remember when I was a little girl, my dad used bring one home to me every day after he was finished working. I’m talking Richie Rich, Archie, Dennis the Menace… pretty much benign fare, and as humor is a MAJOR emphasis in our...
by Pat Marcello | Nov 25, 2010 | Writing
When you think young adult, you’re probably imagining a person over twenty. Yet, when it comes to writing, it means their “reading” age, not their chronological one. A young adult reader is probably in the 6th to 8th grades, or loosely 10 –...
