by Linden Gross | Dec 9, 2021 | Children's Books, Writing
Children’s books are short. They’re easy to write, right? No need to edit, right? Or, if you are editing a children’s book, it won’t take much, right? Wrong on all counts. Any professional writer knows that it’s much harder to write short than to write long. You need...
by Linden Gross | Dec 2, 2021 | Publishing, Writing
You’re going to make writer mistakes. That’s a given, part of the writer’s rite of passage. But you don’t have to make all of them. So I’m launching a new Writer Mistakes series in the hopes of sparing you a few writer mistakes along the...
by Linden Gross | Nov 18, 2021 | Lessons From my Dogs, Writing, Writing Life
I’ve written professionally for 40 years now. Although I’m sure my math can’t be correct since I can’t possibly be that old, I have learned a thing or two about the writer mindset during all that time. Some of those lessons have come, as...
by Linden Gross | Nov 11, 2021 | Writing
The manuscript opened with a man, who would turn out to be one of the novel’s more minor characters, pulling over in a rainstorm to rescue a stray dog and take him to the shelter he had started and still funded. That immediately drew me in, dog lover that I am....
by Linden Gross | Oct 28, 2021 | Children's Books, Writing
Finding your writing voice can feel daunting in the best of circumstances. You have to let go enough to trust yourself and let it bubble up from inside. Then that inner voice gets melded with the needs of your book. Finding that writing voice in children’s books is...
by Linden Gross | Oct 14, 2021 | Writing
The hunt is on. The chipmunk has scooted to safety under a sizeable lava boulder toward the top of the ridge, but Misha, my two-and-a-half-year-old Aussie-Shepherd-Husky mix, and his sister, Harley, just know they can still reach it. They sniff, they circle, they dig,...
