My Great-Grandfather, the Hero
By David Macinnis Gill
You know the adages “Write what you know” and “Kill your darlings?” They’re meant as sage advice to those of us who string together words for fun. “Kill your darlings,” often blamed on Faulkner, means to strike without mercy any sentences that you think show your great prowess as [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Guest Blogger category.
From the Writer’s Desk
From the Writer’s Desk
Teachers Learning in Japan
By David Macinnis Gill
Unlike most Greenwillowites, I’m not very adventurous. I don’t risk my neck surfing California beaches (and I don’t convince other authors to join me). I don’t meander around Monument Valley in the dark, and the last place you’re going to find me is climbing into a deep, dark hole [...]
Learning to Daydream—
A Gift from my Mother
By Ginger Foglesong Guy
I learned to daydream a long time ago. On a fiercely hot Arizona summer day, my two younger sisters and I went inside for lunch. The house was blessedly cool, instant relief from the blistering heat outside. It was over peanut butter sandwiches that my mother broke the news. For the rest [...]
Welcome to Chris Crutcher Week!
@#$%^&! YES!—Day Five
Now it’s our favorite joke, too! (Well, maybe Tim has a better one…)
Chris Crutcher is the author of King of the Mild Frontier: An Ill-Advised Autobiography as well as many other critically acclaimed novels for young adults. He has won three lifetime achievement awards for the body of his work: the Margaret A. Edwards Award [...]
Welcome to Chris Crutcher Week!
@#$%^&! YES!—Day Four
He didn’t win the National Intellectual Freedom Award for nothing…
Chris Crutcher is the author of Athletic Shorts and Angry Management, as well as many other critically acclaimed novels for young adults. He has won three lifetime achievement awards for the body of his work: the Margaret A. Edwards Award for Outstanding Literature for Young Adults, [...]
