The Well-Worded Orchard

Trello is a free tool that uses boards, lists, and cards to organize ideas (not sponsored, but highly recommended). I've been using Trello to organize ideas and projects for a while, but I recently discovered how useful it is for revising a plot. A while back, I realized I needed to take out one of the characters in my WIP The Other Side of the Rainbow. More recently, I decided to rewrite the entire thing, but I still needed to figure out how to take out the character. I want

In honor of Halloween this year, my friends and I watched the movie Coraline . Since I’ve been learning how to write middle grade, I was extremely interested in how they presented the relationship between Coraline and her parents. One of the hallmarks of good middle grade fiction is when the disconnect between the adult and child perspectives is present, but the reader is able to understand and sympathize with both. A lot of writers would have taken a plot like Coraline and