1. What inspires your journey as a writer?
People. Especially the everyday heroisms that fall far below the headlines.
2. Please tell us a bit about your process.
I do not write for the market or for editors. I first write for myself and my idea. I take the idea out to lunch and pepper it with questions. "How do you want me to write you?" "What's the point of view?" When I start getting answers back, I make notes, longhand on yellow paper from Staples, an inch-thick stack of them, about anything that remotely touches the story. Call it brainstorming. Sooner or later some writer's instinct speaks up and says, "OK, it's time." And I head for the keyboard.
3. What is your message for teachers who want to engage their students in literacy?
Honestly, I'm the writer, they're the teachers. I assume they can answer this question better than I. If I must...try your best to separate story from book. Books, like movies, are merely a format for conveying story. And as poet Muriel Rukeyser said, "The universe is not made of atoms, but of stories." The students and theirs stories are one. They are reading about themselves.
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