The Art of Breaking Things. My Love for Philadelphia Soars.

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way. Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over. Writing tight, concise prose is difficult, no matter what age group we write for or what genre. I stumbled across an article. It got a grade 5 readability. One of fourteen sentences was hard to read. The post contained one adverb and two phrases in need of simpler alternatives.

Reflections on how young adults read and how not-quite-so-young adults teach and write for them. On Writing and the Struggle to Keep Control. Over the structure of a plot and the events that happen in a story.

A world of picture books, poetry and parenting. Perfect Picture Book Friday-The Relatives Came.