If you write for kids or teens, I’m sure you have experienced the knucklehead (sometimes with good intentions) who asks you if you’re “working your way up to writing for adults” or gives you the look that says, “Oh…isn’t that sweet.” Well, next time that happens, run on over to The Longstockings and read the post for January 12th, Kidlit Rules. It’ll warm the cockles of your heart (whatever those are).
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Ha! My husband is getting his MFA in poetry and I meet lots of his fiction-writing colleagues who do this very thing. High-brow little stinkers! I SO want to sock them. I think that writing for children is a huge challenge because where adults may cut you some slack (as far as how much of a book they’ll read–attention span-wise), kids won’t. They’re brutal!