by Pat Marcello | Oct 30, 2025 | Pat Life, Uncategorized
The literary among you may recognize the title of Samuel Beckett’s play of the same name — Waiting for Godot. The wonderfully written play involves two main characters spending their days waiting for someone named Godot, who they believe will provide them...
by Pat Marcello | May 9, 2022 | Uncategorized, Writing
So… Quora automatically rejected this post. Hmm… Something screwy there because there’s nothing to be alarmed about. I just want new freelancers to learn some basics. Here you go: I was a freelancer for years. I made most of the mistakes in the...
by Pat Marcello | Jan 16, 2015 | Uncategorized
I started writing when my daughter was born. She slept most of the day, and I needed something to keep my brain alive. I’d had a 60 hour a week career going before that, so if you’re a career woman having a child later in life (I was 37), you know how that...
by Pat Marcello | Dec 21, 2012 | Uncategorized
I got an email the other day from Michael Leifer, who is the co-founder and president of ecodads.org. Michael wanted me to check out their new project on Kickstarter: “Fun Education Apps for Kids & Teens.” I get a lot of emails and press releases from...
by Pat Marcello | Dec 19, 2010 | Uncategorized
When I started writing for teens, I thought I knew how to write. LOL… I knew how to write, of course, and had been published many time over. Yet, I wasn’t really familiar with how teen writing should be approached. I had written for an academic publisher...
by Pat Marcello | Nov 27, 2010 | Uncategorized
We have already established that young adult audiences are between about 10 and 14, so they’re not close to being adults, except in terms of reading. Their abilities should be about the same, but the works shouldn’t be as graphic as some adults works might...
