The Writers' Well: A Weekly Recap of the Best Kidslit Blog Posts

Yah, it's Friday!  Let's plunge right into the Writers' Well.

Writers everywhere are coming up with inventive ways to help save local libraries.  Jennifer R. Hubbard talks about How to Help Your Library on her blog writerjenn.  If you go to Melissa Walker's blog and make a comment on this post she'll give some cash to her local library.  So will Angela De Groot, Janet Fox, and C. J. Omololu.  Susan Patron discusses the LA Library situation on Tales from the Rushmore Kid.

There's yet another donation challenge.  This one is at My Big Nose and Other Natural Disasters.  For ever comment on this post by March 28th, she'll donate a dollar to Room to Read (this is the same organization that I'll be donating to at the end of this month).

There were some great posts on Writing Craft this week, too.  On the blog Pen and Ink, Hilde Garcia has notes on Jordan Brown's talk on Revision.  Anita Nolan had a three part series on Writing in Scenes (part 1, part 2, part 3).  Yesterday, she had a post on How to Research Historical Fiction.

Samantha Clarke was a guest blogger at Jordon McCollum, and she discusses How to Get the Most out of Conferences.

There were lots of great interviews this week.  Dave Patneaude (author Epitaph Road) was interviewed by Kirby Larson on her blog Kirby's Lane.  There's an interview with debut author Christy Raedeke (Prophecy of Days) on Holly Schindler's blog.  Beth Kephart discusses her novel The Heart is not a Size on the HipWriterMama blog.  There's also a donation challenge (all you have to do is leave a comment).  Kephart was interviewed over at Holly Cupala's blog, too.  D. M. Cunningham has an interview with Tom Angleberger, author of The Strange Case of Origami Yoda.


I really enjoyed this post at the YA 5.  K. A. Holt discusses the misconception that writing YA novels is less work than writing a book marketed to adults.
Libba Bray talks about her experiences at the NYC Teen Author Festival.

If you love Carrie Ryan's zombie novels, check out Holly Cupala's blog for videos and photos of Ryan's tour for Dead-Tossed Waves.

Lee Wind has an update on the School that Canceled Prom rather than let a lesbian student bring her girlfriend.

Every day in April is 30 Poets/30 Days on GottaBook.  Check out this post for details.

Tara Lazar has an inspirational post on What Figure Skating Taught her about Writing.

As a Snoopy fan, I must point to Peg Kehret's post on Snoopy Moments.

That's it for this week.  Have a wonderful weekend!