The New York Times best-selling author is best known for authentically portraying African American youth facing tough life choices. He was a tireless advocate of literacy and education who also promoted diversity in children’s literature. I like this sentence that I gave my heroine because it came from my own experience going through security at Greenhaven Prison, where I first got the idea for my novel Street Love.Walter Dean Myers was a critically acclaimed African American children’s author of award-winning fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
Writer's Block Remedy: The time I spend in this prewriting stage, often as much as six months, eliminates writer's block."Ī Favorite Sentence: "'The guards search me, tossing my confidence into the brown plastic bag with my keys, reminding me that I am Black, that I am lesser.' I do time lines for each major character and a time line for the entire novel: What is going on in the world as my characters struggle with their problems?" I live intimately with my characters before starting a book. That way I can work on more than one project at a time. I do original work in the morning and revisions in the afternoon. So when I finish my first draft, I have either my artist-wife or my artist-illustrator son, Christopher Myers, look at the manuscript with a special eye for where I need to describe a scene. Yet another weakness is my failure to describe scenes and people. I work straight through for the first draft, taking notes as I go along."
I begin work by 7 a.m., sometimes earlier, and usually complete my five pages by 10 a.m. By restricting myself to five pages, I almost force myself to pay more attention to detail. To avoid these internal monologues, I work from a carefully constructed outline to make sure that some physical things are happening. One weakness which I've struggled to overcome is my tendency to having my characters ruminate for pages. I love the process of writing and, if I allowed myself, I would write far too much every day. How He Writes: "After so many books and so many years of writing I have a good idea of my strengths and weaknesses. He lives in Jersey City, N.J., with his wife, Constance, and his cat, Askia Home Boy Brown. Myers was also a finalist in 2005, for his novel, Autobiography of My Dead Brother. Printz Award, given to a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature, and was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2000. Monster, about a 16-year-old standing trial for murder, won the first Michael L. Walter Dean Myers has written more than 85 children's books.
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