![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When I get stuck I just ask myself, 'What do kids see? What are they capable of? What am I saying to them? And what do adults know, anyway?' Usually, that gets me back on track. The thought that I'm writing for children helps me tremendously. But the business of sifting and then capturing on paper is sometimes elusive –- and it's difficult not to wonder how your work will be judged. Many of us have passions that started in childhood sometimes I think we are who we are right from the beginning. Writer's Block Regimen: "I'm lucky, because I always have more ideas than I have places to put them. Blue Balliett, Author of: Out of the Wild Night, Pieces and Players, Hold Fast, The Danger Box, The Calder Game, The Wright 3, Chasing Vermeer, and Nantucket Ghosts. Such is life I like the thought that this isn't a likely place to write or think." Now I have a table, and am surrounded by mountains of paper and the occasional runaway dish towel or t-shirt. ![]() During the five years it took me to finish Chasing Vermeer, I worked with a laptop on an extra bed that was always covered with a mountain of clean socks and blue jeans. How She Writes: "I write as soon as I'm awake, and I work in the laundry room in our house. She lives with her family and cats in Chicago. Balliett graduated from Brown University with a degree in art history. Her latest, The Wright 3, is a detective story that takes place in a house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Blue Balliett is the author of two novels for children. ![]()
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