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L to R, Arthur, Linda Sue, LisaLisa Yee gems:
If you've ever been to Red Lobster, I wrote the menu. Crispy Golden Fries? That's me.
(laughter)
Hey, a menu is a story: beginning, middle, and end.
Lisa said that she was working on a book, sure that the main character was 11. She morphed into being 12. And ultimately, telling the story that needed to be told, the character ended up being 17, and the book was a YA.
Arthur's advice to Lisa back then (and now):
Just write the story it needs to be.
Arthur:
In all the genres, the difficulty is letting go of the anxiety of what you percieve to be the rules of the form.
Lisa chimed in on that - she had a character who was a run-away, and her first instinct was that the character would swear a lot - the percieved rules of the form. But then she realized that her character DIDN'T swear a lot.
Linda Sue:
I want to write a story, and the best story I absolutely can. When she wrote "A Single Shard," she thought it would be an adult book.
When I write my novels, I don't know where it's going to be shelved when it's out.
And they shared so much more great advice and insight!
Lisa Yee (far right), Linda Sue Park (center),
and Arthur A. Levine (speaking as Sid Fleischman)
Since Sid wasn't able to attend, Arthur A. Levine graciously stepped in. Arthur read Sid's contribution for this panel, including these gems:
Most our lives are sequences of scenes - and in this respect, art is like life.
Emotion is common to all genres.
Without emotion to touch us, one is left with typing paper.
Linda Sue Park:
Still, today, when revising my novels, there are several run throughs on the language level, in which I revise my novels like a poem.
She even goes through the draft one time during revisions, focusing solely on where the period falls - like in poetry!
She writes poetry in the fallow times between novels.
Her first picture book was adapted from a poem she had written thinking it would be for an adult poetry collection.
More on this great panel to come! Hey, people keep coming in - it's standing room only now!
Posted by Lee Wind
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