by Kate Peridot | Mar 8, 2016 | Children's Fiction, Writing Theory
We’ve had lots of conversations in my critique group lately about how to describe places and people. So I thought I would check out how children’s greatest and best authors tackle it, starting with place… Here’s an extract from… His Dark Materials, by Phillip Pullman....
by Kate Peridot | Jan 13, 2016 | Picture Book Knowhow, Writing Theory
Karl Iglesias in Writing for Emotional Impact, states we can experience three different types of emotion when we read books or watch movies. Voyeuristic emotions relate to our curiosity about new information, new worlds and the relationship between characters. In this...