Due this week

General Writing. Send in your best work – poems, short stories, essays. (Feel free to do it throughout the year, but this gives you a deadline.)
Deadline: Oct. 10.

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  • Click "create content" and create an ENTRY
  • Fill out "title," "author name, school & grade" and "prompt" boxes.
  • Paste story into "body."
  • Click "Submit." You are done.
    NOTES: Your account email must be accurate; a "blog" entry must be resubmitted as an ENTRY to be considered.

Revealers

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Submitted by sk8ergrl on April 30, 2008 - 20:25.

Hi Mr.Wilhelm,

You probably don't remember but a couple of weeks ago you came and visited Essex Middle School's sixth grade teams and I was on it. I am on the Verve team. I just barely got your book Falling from the public library and I can't wait to read it!! I really liked how you did the research before the Revealers with kids our age. I think that's why a lot of us connect with the book.

~Kathryn Maurer

How did you get the idea? ›

Thanks...

Submitted by ggevalt on April 30, 2008 - 21:52.

Doug is fighting the flu, but he'll be responding soon, so check back.
geoff gevalt
ywp editor

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Oh...

Submitted by sk8ergrl on May 1, 2008 - 18:40.

Oh, I hate being sick.

Thanks,
KM

thanks, Kathryn!

Submitted by dwilhelm on May 2, 2008 - 14:47.

Hi Kathryn,

I definitely remember my day at Essex Middle School! It was an exceptional day. I'm very happy to know that you got FALLING out of the library. Will you let me know what you think?

I do try to research my books with young people, and to ask them for feedback, often, on drafts. I did the same with FALLING (see my new response to a question on that forum). I appreciate your saying that this is what helps the books connect. I think, and I often discover, that there are a lot of ways that growing up is universal -- I went through the same stuff; everybody does -- but there are very important ways that this generation's experience and challenges are new. The whole online and networked aspect of life, for one big example -- and, more broadly, the pressures and the power, and sometimes the odd isolation, that being digitally connected in so many ways today seems to create, in kids. I'm not sure I can ever completely understand that -- but the only way I can try is by asking questions and listening to the answers, and generally trying to listen to kids.

I hope you'll write again ... let me know what you think of FALLING!

best,

Doug

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Falling

Submitted by sk8ergrl on May 3, 2008 - 14:19.

I am on the third or fourth chapter of Falling and I am really enjoying it!!

~Kathryn

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