Debbie Dadey's Blog: Congratulations! - Posts Tagged "writing"

Hope you'll join me today, Sept. 12th, at 1:00 pm Eastern for a live interview about writing, my newest book, and life! http://www.blogtalkradio.com/storiesf...

I was really blessed with having three books coming out in 2015 (hope you'll win my upcoming A Tale of Two Sisters), so why was I so crushed when my latest novel was rejected by my agent? I tell myself I'm lucky and I know it's true. So why does it hurt so much? It hurts because writers pour their hearts and souls into their stories. The stories and characters become a part of them, like an arm or a leg. So when someone wants to hack it off, it's bound to hurt. But like a starfish (or sea star) I am determined to start again (regrow that appendage-fix that story). So that's my 2015 pledge-to try again! What's yours?

What a bummer to work two years on a book, writing and rewriting hundreds of pages only to find out it's not any good. My editor and agent all found good parts, but when I reread it I knew-it wasn't good enough. But eureka-I had an idea. One little part of the story was what I loved the most and that was the idea I grasped. Yesterday I started writing a new story based on that one little kernel-I hope it works this time!

I hate being unorganized, although you'd never tell it from the state of my desk. Stacks of files, random papers, receipts, water glass, scanner, pilers, and even a screwdriver combine with other junk to make the fall scenery on my desk. I need to get organized, but I need to write more-so I put the post-move organization off to another day. But I know there will come a day when I can't stand it any more and I will have to put things away. But perhaps not this week-on Friday I'll be in my home state of Kentucky for the Kentucky Book Fair's Children's Day from 9-2, speaking at 9:15 (hope to see you!). On Saturday, I'll be back in Tennessee at the Etowah Arts Commission's Young Author's Conference. Sunday is a day of rest and then Monday-perhaps a day of organizing? But, I really want to write the next chapter of my current story so I'm thinking maybe my desk isn't so messy after all!

Ideas are everywhere! So how come when we start to write a story they somehow disappear? Marcia Thornton Jones and I put our heads together to come up with strategies for getting ideas, developing them, and polishing them into a completed children’s story. We poured them into Writing for Kids The Ultimate Guide. It is everything we wished we’d known when we first began writing. We hope you’ll enjoy it and let us know how your writing journey is going. Writing for Kids The Ultimate Guide is available for pre-order now and releases Feb. 26, 2019. Happy writing! https://www.amazon.com/Writing-Kids-M...