by Danielle DeFauw | Sep 10, 2018 | Writing Contest, Young Authors' Festival
Many authors have started their publishing careers in children’s literature after participating in or winning writing contests: Sharon Draper, Tim Wynne-Jones, Grace Lin, and Cynthia Leitich Smith, just to name a few. Writing contests provide an authentic writing...
by Danielle DeFauw | Aug 20, 2018 | Getting Started, Teacher-Writers
As I prayed this morning, going through my daily devotional, our family basset hound made a crazy amount of noise, pulling out something from behind a shelf. I scrambled to quiet him and to discover what in the world he had gotten himself into again at 4:30 a.m. and...
by Danielle DeFauw | Jul 16, 2018 | ASK Program, Publication, Teacher-Writers
To live is to connect with others. Making connections across our journeys with one another provides us opportunities to teach and to learn, to inspire and to soar, to bless and to be blessed. A couple weeks ago, I read Andy Andrews’ The Traveler’s Gift, recommended to...
by Danielle DeFauw | Jul 9, 2018 | Teacher-Writers
Once again, I had the pleasure of writing for the #TeachWrite Chat Blog, a blog created by a great organization: Teach Write, LLC. I invite you to read my post highlighting Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s (1990) book titled Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience,...
by Danielle DeFauw | Jun 20, 2018 | Publication, Revision, Teacher-Writers
I truly believed with all of my heart that I had found an agent to help me navigate the children’s book publishing market. I awaited a phone call believing thoroughly that my breakthrough was a breath away. That breath came through an email and exhaled, “NO!” I...
