Just Never Forget To Be Dexterous And

Writing For Children Is Murder. A Chapter Has To Be Boiled Down To A Paragraph. Every Word Has To Count.

You'll Get Mixed Up, Of Course, As You Already Know. You'll Get Mixed Up With Many Strange Birds As You Go. So Be Sure When You Step. Step With Care And Great Tact And Remember That Life's A Great Balancing Act. Just Never Forget To Be Dexterous And Deft. And Never Mix Up Your Right Foot With Your Left.

Writing Simply Means No Dependent Clauses, No Dangling Things, No Flashbacks, And Keeping The Subject Near The Predicate. We Throw In As Many Fresh Words We Can Get Away With. Simple, Short Sentences Don't Always Work. You Have To Do Tricks With Pacing, Alternate Long Sentences With Short, To Keep It Vital And Alive.... Virtually Every Page Is A Cliffhanger--you've Got To Force Them To Turn It."~

You Ought To Be Thankful A Hole Heaping Lot, For The Places And People You're Lucky You're Not!

Life's Just One Great Journey. It's A Road We Travel As We Go From Point A To Point B. What Makes That Journey Worthwhile Is The People We Choose To Travel With, The People We Hold Close As We Take Steps Into The Darkness And Blindly Make Our Way Through Life. They're The People Who Matter.