Three words. Write your story.
This weekend I spent three days with a gathering of people who care deeply about children’s literature – writers, editors, teachers, librarians, scholars, artists – at the Simmons Summer Institute in Boston. I am inspired, indeed.
I have so much to think about, to interpret, to consider, and I will journal for a while before I head back to fiction and start catching some story.
But this I do want to share, this nugget that I felt ready to hear again:
Write the story only you can tell. Write the story for which you are the only one, the best one to tell that story. Catch the story that only you can catch.
I am going to write a letter to my own stories, to tell them why I am the best one to tell that story.
Story Catching 