by Andi | Feb 11, 2012 | Andi's Book, Written and Wrought
As I watched Chimamanda Adichie talk about how, as a child, the influence of books shaped her view of who she thought could be part of literature, I remembered my own childhood reading habits. For her, a child in Nigeria, literature consisted of British white children... by Andi | Feb 10, 2012 | Andi's Book, Written and Wrought
Last night, as I lay reading as many pages of the last book in the Pellinor series as I could before I keeled over from exhaustion, I thought, “It would be nice to just make things up sometimes.” That’s not to say, of course, that writing fiction is... by Andi | Feb 9, 2012 | Andi's Book, Written and Wrought
This morning, my friend Ervenna mentioned on Facebook that she is seeing very, very little Black History month content on TV, in particular. Her comment made me think a bit, and I realized she’s right. While I am steeped in black history all the time, most of... by Andi | Feb 7, 2012 | Andi's Book, Teaching Triumphs and Travails, Written and Wrought
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote on The Ten Best Things About Being a Full-Time Writer, and many many people added their own things, most of which focused on the actual results of writing. I thought that was a splendid idea, so here are the ten best things that writing... by Andi | Feb 3, 2012 | Andi's Book, Written and Wrought
“How many books are you writing?” my father asked the other day when I held up the huge stack of duplication I just received from the UVa Special Collections Library. Just one. Just one. I didn’t have the heart or the time to tell Dad that most of...