"A writer should create living people; people, not characters. A character is a caricature."
~ Ernest Hemingway

Here's the latest article from the Writing for Children site at BellaOnline.com:

Seven Deadly Sins in Fiction Writing: Sin #1~Characters Who Fail to React to the Action Around Them

When a character fails to react in the way he should, the reader is yanked from the story world.

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Coming up in the near future:

• Writing for Publication--evaluating published works.
• Critiques of excerpts.
• Conference Reports/What the Editors Like.
• Seven Deadly Sins: Sin #2~POV.

Feel free to pass this along to family and friends who are also interested in writing for children.

Thanks so much!

Sally Apokedak,
Writing for Children Editor

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