Author and poet Marilyn Singer believes giving kids permission to experiment with form and free writing time can help them get hooked on writing verse.
When author Phyllis Reynolds Naylor starts a story, even she doesn’t know where it might lead. With Shiloh, Naylor discovered that she was really writing a story about the gray area between right and wrong.
Although author Phyllis Reynolds Naylor never writes about people in her own life, they often form the spark for a fictional character. She has to fully inhabit each character she writes about.
