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The Key To Writing Successful Ya Is To Keep The Adults Out Of The Story As Much As Possible.

In My Grammar School Years Back In The 1920s I Used My Ten-cents-a-week Allowance For Saturday Matinees Of Douglas Fairbanks Movies. All That Swashbuckling And Leaping About In The Midst Of The Sails Of Ships!

She Was Not A Slowpoke Grownup. She Was A Girl Who Could Not Wait. Life Was So Interesting She Had To Find Out What Happened Next.

Problem Solving, And I Don't Mean Algebra, Seems To Be My Life's Work. Maybe It's Everyone's Life's Work.

I Don't Necessarily Start With The Beginning Of The Book. I Just Start With The Part Of The Story That's Most Vivid In My Imagination And Work Forward And Backward From There.