Forget writer’s block! Once you free up children to tell their own stories, the words can flow. “Write as much as you want and tell everything and put it all on the page. Then rewrite it …”
There’s a little room in your head which has a door with no handle. It is fed by everything you remember about what you have thought, done, everybody you’ve met, everything you’ve read.
Award-winning author Matt de la Peña talks about the freedom he has had to write about topics that he might not have been able to tackle before winning the Newbery Award.
