back to work

"Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what one is saying." -- John Updike.

I've got notes (once again) from a new-to-me editor at Scholastic, Ken Geist, on a picture book I've sold about Bobby Kennedy. It's exciting to work with a new editor -- David L. is a wonderful novel editor, and now Ken steps in to work on picture books with me, and I am so glad.

So today's work is about looking at these notes and writing a response to them, and then, we hope, talking next week before I head to the D.C. area for my first school visit this fall, combined with some family time. We drive to Charleston on Sunday, to celebrate Jim's birthday with his mom and sister... I am going to write in the car. Watch me do this daring feat of amazing car writing, just watch me.

In the meantime, I have these revisions this morning, a house to clean, a class to teach tomorrow at the Atlanta-Fulton County library, a birthday dinner here on Saturday night, my favorite 4-year-old spending the night on Saturday night, and then we're off to Charleston. And... it's all what I want, in this Year of Exploration. It's all good.




Posted by Debbie Wiles at Friday, September 11, 2015
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  1. JoanneSeptember 11, 2015 at 11:38 AM

    Your workshop/class sounds great - wish I lived closer. Sound like a great start to the fall of exploration! Enjoy!

    I am slowly back to writing and now drawing - beginning a drawing class a week from Saturday - should be interesting :) I am not the best with a pencil and pictures but should be fun.

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    1. Debbie WilesSeptember 11, 2015 at 11:40 AM

      Jealous of your drawing class! That's on my list this year, and I never seem to make time for it. Or have time. Or something. That picture they put on the workshop description is ridiculous! Good luck with the writing and drawing this fall.

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  2. Xena's MomSeptember 13, 2015 at 12:24 AM

    Have a wonderful weekend Deborah. It all sounds absolutely perfect, even the house cleaning. ♥

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    1. Debbie WilesSeptember 13, 2015 at 8:07 AM

      Thank you, sweet Margie. It's nice to wake up to a clean house! We had a fabulous family dinner last night. The stuff of my dreams. It bowls me over to think about what I dreamed years ago, and the even shinier truth of it now... hope you're having a great weekend!

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