Call Me a Dreamer

I haven't even finished reading sartorias' post, YA Writer Interview, yet, because the link she started with, to an interview with Elizabeth Wein (eegatland), has led me on a wild link chase. Wild link chases, unlike wild goose chases, can be very fruitful. In the interview, I found a link to eegatland's post about a dream her daughter had, which in turn brought me to both No to Age Banding, a website "set up by writers and other professionals who believe that the proposal to put an age-banding figure on books for children is ill-conceived and damaging to the interests of young readers," and thru_the_booth, aka Through the Tollbooth: Thoughts on Writing for Children and Young Adults. I found the recent post, The D-Word, on thru_the_booth, to be very insightful, and that post led me to Seven Rules for Writing Historical Fiction, written by Elizabeth Crook and published in The Internet Writing Journal. (Hmm, lots of Elizabeths here. I wonder...)

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