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Becky Levine is the author of The Writing & Critique Group Survival Guide, a book to help you get started with a critique group, learn to revise from a critique, and strengthen your own critiquing powers. Becky lives in California's Santa Cruz mountains, where she spends a lot of time reading (and re-reading) feedback from her own critique group and using their comments to strengthen her skills as a picture book writer. She does her best thinking away from the computer, with her knitting needles in hand and a notebook nearby.
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Word Choice in POE WON’T GO

I braindumped a new picture book idea a couple of weeks ago, and I need to start thinking about how to turn it into an actual story that kids will fall in love with. So I pulled a few mentor texts off my shelves.

The story elements I wanted to look at today were:

Two characters interacting An unexpected event or person with a problem

I found those elements. And, as often happens when I really dig int

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	The Writing & Critique Group Survival Guide: How to Make Revisions, Self-Edit, and Give and Receive Feedback 4.01 avg rating — 94 ratings — published 2009 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	For Life and Liberty: Causes and Effects of the Declaration of Independence 2.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2014 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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