Tag: writing for children Archives · Wendy Orr
1st Jul
Dragonflies: myths, meanings and mysteries
Dragonfly photo sent by my cousin when she heard the title Happy birth day to my newest baby: Dragonfly Song. You’ve been a long time coming. The dragonfly theme in the book…
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19th Nov
Advice on first steps in getting published
Open letter to new writers: Writing a manuscript is hard enough, but submissions can be downright scary. I get a lot of requests for advice, and although my own commitments won’t allow…
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13th Oct
Plotting, planning, and the terror of a new story
I’ve been planning a new book for the last while – it’s always hard to say how long for, because some ideas for it have been floating around for several years. But…
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19th Sep
Tangles – getting inside a child protagonist’s head
Errol Broome is, I think, one of Australia’s best writers for children. I’ve just reread Tangles, which is sadly out of print, and have been impressed all over again. The blurb begins…
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17th Sep
Dead Parents in Fiction
A mother and daughter book group reading Nim’s Island wrote to say they were thinking of changing their name to the Dead Parents Book club, as they’d done so many books where…
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27th Aug
Interview with Audrey, a teen reader & blogger
A Type Of Teen blog interview Something very special about being interviewed by one of my readers! Audrey is 13 and runs the very impressive atypeofteen wordpress blog. She recently interviewed me…
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12th Feb
Diving Deeper into your story:
Yesterday, Margo Lanagan tweeted pictures of the scrapbooks she used while working on her new novel Sea Hearts (which I’m dying to read, not only because Selkies are dear to my heart,…
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24th May
Storytellers
Last week was Education Week in Australia, and I went to two great schools: Cheltenham East and Amsleigh Park, as a Premier’s Reading Ambassador. Then on Thursday I went to our local…
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9th May
Mother’s Day Writing Thoughts
It’s Mother’s Day in Australia, but for various geographical reasons we’re celebrating it before and after… so today I’m thinking about my imaginary children instead. As a writer who is also a…
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