Rick Starkey
Luminaries: A Children’s Book AnthologyJanuary 7, 2017
Luminaries: A Children’s Book AnthologyJanuary 7, 2017
Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Many people decide they must be picture book writers because 1.   they think all books for young children are picture books, and/or2.   they want to write short things, and/or3.   they assume picture…
028: Cook Up a Good Story
December 2, 2016
026: Q&A Hall of Fame
November 18, 2016
025: Houston, We Need a Problem
November 11, 2016
016: Don’t Promote Prose Bloat Part 2
September 9, 2016
015: Don’t Promote Prose Bloat Part 1
September 2, 2016
012: Is This a Picture Book?
August 12, 2016
007: The “Write What You Know” Loophole
July 8, 2016
How do people manage to fit in a busy life, work activities, AND writing? let’s look at 7 time management tips to help you fit writing into your busy day.
Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > When I was in elementary school, we lived about four blocks from the school. It was a straight shot from the schoolyard to my house. No turns. No problem. Starting in second…
Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Last week, I talked about writing things that were sure to make a sale for me, sure to give me that reward. One of those things for many writers is nonfiction. Nonfiction…
Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Long ago, researchers were studying how creatures react to reward. They learned that if you put a “reward station” in a rat’s cage and have a treat appear every time the rat…
Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Many of us begin our writing journey with a firm vision for exactly what we want to write or what we’ll be able to write. We have goals connected to that idea.…
Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > 1. Do you like the idea of being part of a book partnership, where the end result belongs as much to the illustrator as it does to you? If you answered “yes”…
Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > I became a writer mostly because it was something people had always told me that I did well. I knew that if a day came when I didn’t love writing, I would…
To understand how best to plan for your writing adventure and keep going during the tough times, look inward and ask yourself: What’s my motivation?
Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Someone once asked me if I ever considered log lines for my stories. Naturally, I said, “Hunh?” Then I learned something. A log line in “Hollywood script-writing†terms is a kind of…