Archive for October 21st, 2007

In his keynote speech at the Southern Breeze SCBWI fall conference, Larry Rosler, editorial director at Boyds Mills Press, urged writers to create stories that will transform readers. He suggested the most powerful stories, the ones readers return to over and over, make readers think about life in ways they hadn’t previously and, indeed, prompt them to say, “Ah, that is what it is like to live.”

Our conference blogging session turned out to be a talk session about blogging because we weren’t able to get access to the internet at the high school where the conference was held. I am writing this in the hotel room. I’ll share more from the conference when I get back home.