Comments on: Practicing to be a Real Writer http://freerangelibrarian.com/2006/02/15/practicing-to-be-a-real-writer/ K.G. Schneider's blog on librarianship, writing, and everything else, since 2003. Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:42:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: kgs http://freerangelibrarian.com/2006/02/15/practicing-to-be-a-real-writer/#comment-2085 kgs Fri, 17 Feb 2006 22:46:08 +0000 http://www.freerangelibrarian.com/2006/02/15/practicing-to-be-a-real-writer/#comment-2085 That helps! It's like knowing everyone has a colonoscopy after 50... the great equalizer. I may tape your comment on my wall, directly behind my computer monitor! That helps! It’s like knowing everyone has a colonoscopy after 50… the great equalizer. I may tape your comment on my wall, directly behind my computer monitor!

]]> By: Jane Yolen http://freerangelibrarian.com/2006/02/15/practicing-to-be-a-real-writer/#comment-2084 Jane Yolen Wed, 15 Feb 2006 21:45:40 +0000 http://www.freerangelibrarian.com/2006/02/15/practicing-to-be-a-real-writer/#comment-2084 Hate to be the first to tell you, but even long- time professional writers break into a sweat about being found out as frauds. The day my friend Patty MacLachlan won the Newbery for SARAH PLAIN AND TALL, she phoned and said, "I'm afraid they are going to ask for the Medal back once they realize I really don't know how to write." And Edith Wharton quoted (and translated) a French writer who said, "I dream of an eagle, I give birth to a hummingbird." Forgetting, I suppose, how gorgeous the hummingbird is. And it flies. --Jane Hate to be the first to tell you, but even long- time professional writers break into a sweat about being found out as frauds. The day my friend Patty MacLachlan won the Newbery for SARAH PLAIN AND TALL, she phoned and said, “I’m afraid they are going to ask for the Medal back once they realize I really don’t know how to write.”

And Edith Wharton quoted (and translated) a French writer who said, “I dream of an eagle, I give birth to a hummingbird.” Forgetting, I suppose, how gorgeous the hummingbird is. And it flies.

–Jane

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