Tag: characters
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April 16, 2019
I dream about my characters when I’m working on a story; but when the story is done, I usually don’t dream about them again. Last night, however, I dreamed that I was holding a mouse in the palm of my hand. “Oh,” I thought. “It’s Despereaux. He’s going to tell me a story.” I woke…
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November 5, 2015
Kate Facebook Fan questions – November 2015: Erin Grady Kachline: What are some of your favorite newer books for ages 9-12? (Naturally, we’ve already read and reread all of yours ) Let’s see, I loved Kevin Henkes’ The Year of Billy Miller and Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan and R.J. Palacio’s Wonder (all…
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September 24, 2015
When I write a story, I carry around the words of it for a long time without ever speaking them aloud. And then, if I am lucky, the story becomes a book, and the book goes out into the world. And the words of the book, the names of the characters, get spoken aloud by…
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January 27, 2015
If you had told me when I was a kid that two characters from a book I wrote would appear on a poster celebrating the joy of reading, I would not have believed you. But here is the poster. Here are Flora and Ulysses. Stories are superpowers. Read. Reactions: 1.4K Comments: 70 Original Post
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June 21, 2011
FURTHER RUMINATIONS ON THE “EDITORIAL LETTER” The editorial letter for Because of Winn-Dixie suggested that I add more characters. I spent a lot of time bemoaning this outrageous impossibility (“It’s like presenting someone with a nice cake that you’ve baked and iced and having them taste it and say: ‘yes, well. It would be better…