On Writing (for Kids)

When my oldest son was a toddler, and the Minnesota winters kept us inside, we’d spend hours reading picture books. We’d drive to the library, check out a foot-tall stack of books, and then read through the entire stack multiple times a day until the next library trip. My husband and I quickly learned which…

Creative Work for the Greater Good

Critique can hurt, especially when it comes to writing. A former client would always reply, “It's a good start" or "It's on the right track" to my drafts, no matter how much I applied their comments from earlier pieces to each new one. Even though my successive drafts were so polished that they shone like…