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Kathleen Dalton Woodbury
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I've been going back over OSC's review articles and wanted to point you all at a list of questions he quotes from Richard Peck.

They are near the end of this review:

http://www.hatrack.com/osc/reviews/everything/2005-06-26.shtml


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Thanks Kathleen. That was an enjoyable read. And it even talks about Beth and Mary's favorite word foible--alright...
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Some of those are good questions for any story project, some are simply good to get kids thinking about the story.

I think that number 4 is rather limited. There are a lot more cinematographic options than just color or black and white. Despite that, the essential question being asked is a good one. What is the mood of the work as a whole? Giving something a consistent emotive quality while allowing variation of incident and theme is one of those problems that much interests me in writing.


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