Erin takes us through the four scenes that make up the first chapter of Martine Leavitt’s YA novel Buffalo Flats. We talk desire line (both internal and external), character, setting, language, humor and more.
Links:
- Martine Leavitt’s Buffalo Flats
- “Making Your Character’s Desires Concrete” by Anne-Marie
- “Crafting Character: Discovering Desire” from KidLit Craft
- Backstory, articles from KidLit Craft
The KidLit Craft Podcast is hosted by Anne-Marie Strohman and Erin Nuttall.
Music by Trevor Strohman.
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Anne-Marie Strohman (co-editor) writes picture books, middle grade novels, and young adult short stories and novels. She is trained as a teacher, an editor, and a scholar, specializing in Renaissance Literature. She holds an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts and is an active member of SCBWI. Find her at amstrohman.com and on Twitter @amstrwriter.
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