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nts i judge them by the quality of their tamales so if a good middle grade voice is sweet creamy butter my writing must have tasted like margarin to this agent tastes like butter but there s definitely something oily and not right about it really people no one should be eating margarin in polite society these days so of course i don t want my story to taste like it how do i refine my style so that it tastes like good butter i ve been asking myself over and over how do i tone down my voice so that it isn t trying too hard i want it to sound more like a middle grader and not an adult writing middle grade my solution read more middle grade novels duh but this time i m going read and study the styles of the books that are similar to my own see what they do better and see if i can improve i may start a new adventure wip just to get words on the page too read write refine best way to sharpen your voice right this way my finished adventure can grow cold too then hopefully the oil will be more noticeable to me and i can scrape it off do you have any great tips for refining a middle grade voice i need them please share what you do butter sidebar i found this pix by googling fancy butter it made me giggle sometimes the internet is really amazing to me posted by bfav at 6 00 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels she s crafty voice monday july 15 2013 marvelous middle grade monday nalamist falls keeping the peace author interview nalamist falls supernatural prep school for witches werewolves and vampires keeping the peace by j curtis mace published 2012 other books in the series finding the pack 2 remembering the way 3 the hook a young werewolf named rusty is trying to negotiate all the prides and pitfalls of life in the fifth grade so when the older group of vampire bullies is charged with stealing the witches most powerful book of spells rusty doesn t worry too much about it but when he and his warlock friend zeke learn that the elder peace in nalamist falls actually hangs in the balance he has no choice but to get involved a species war would destroy rusty s world and all the relationships he s made with his supernatural friends his only friends really why i liked it characters and chaptering the characters are a lot of fun rusty is a believeable 5th grader even though he is a werewolf and smells everything evie the new girl and a vampire was my favorite character and zeke the warlock complimented the other two the chaptering was brilliant in the story mace would end each chapter in a way that left no time for snacking only reading this is a short story and it reads fast it would appeal to both boys and girls it was a fun paranormal adventure that never got too dark so i could let my 9 yr old read it want more check out his spotlight on lulu or buy the book here interview with j curtis mace keeping the peace is a fun magical paranormal story for kids where did you get your inspiration for the story what came to you first your plot or the characters where i got the inspiration for the story is a hard one i don t really remember i know my wife and i were watching trueblood on hbo and i ve always said my stories are like trueblood for kids so i think that might have been the initial inspiration but the characters definitely came first one rule of writing is to write what you know so i am constantly writing about my friends and i all my characters are drawn from people i know and from myself and once they start living on their own they take the reins and go forward and basically write the stories for me the story is written in first person as rusty the 5th grade werewolf why did you decide to do first person vs third and why from rusty s perspective this is the first story series i ve written in the first person and i did it because it just felt right whenever i write these stories i actually get in rusty s head he s the me character and i write from there so again it just felt right to write from the first person perspective i feel like it makes the emotion of the story much more real for the reader that way too like they re feeling it living it themselves as for why rusty s perspective like i said he s the me character everybody wants to be the cool vampire or the magical witch warlock but i wanted to write from the very real position of just a kid a very nervous humble fallible kid i also like the primal magic of being a werewolf and the ideas of him drawing on that as opposed to immortality or actual magic i like that rusty is always scared or nervous to do the right thing but he does it because it is the right thing or because he is standing up for his friends i like how rusty overcomes his fears and how he leans on his friends for help with doing that what was your favorite scene to write the first scene at the church was a lot of fun the tension outside and then the scene inside and the way rusty almost blows the whole thing at the end i like that one a lot but i think my favorite is near the end when they actually go into freakyfingers s house that was such a reveal belly of the beast type of chapter it was a lot of fun to write if you can imagine being in rusty s head it was a lot of fun to explore the house and make all the gross discoveries and it was quite intense when everything started going down too lots of fun and my favorite evie is my favorite who is your favorite character of course this sounds like a complete cop out of an answer but i love all my characters even the newer ones from later books they re all so independent and individual i love them all for their own reasons evie is so feisty and bold and she cares very deeply for rusty zeke is modeled after one of my best friends who passed away some years ago so he has a special place with me i even like my bad guys for being so bad and so good at it but again it might sound like a cop out but rusty is my favorite he s so strong and vulnerable at the same time he loves his friends and will do anything for them he s a good guy and he s funny my favorite though is writing them all together when their all hanging out as a group they are all such strong personalities and strong characters whenever they get together the story and the jokes and all the plans for adventures basically write themselves you are great at chaptering everytime i could see the end of the chapter coming i would think oh good i ll go get a snack but by the end of the chapter i would have to turn the page i probably lost a pound saving me from the snacks so thank you could you give any advice to aspiring mg writers about how to end a chapter thank you for the compliment chaptering is something i ve worked on a lot i actually made changes to most of my chapter endings right before publication i didn t change the narrative as much i just changed the place in the narrative where the chapter ended one piece of advice criticism i got from a friend was that chapters shouldn t end on scene changes they should end on tension changes that would be my advice to other writers if the scene is over and everything is settled and the chapter ends that s a great place to put a book down and go get a snack but if a scene is progressing and drama is building and then something completely unexpected scary pivotal happens or is revealed and then the chapter ends a reader s natural instinct is to keep reading i wanted most of my chapters as many as i could to end with a holy crap moment so the reader will start reading the next chapter just to see that everyone made it through alright having chapters end right in the middle of the climactic moment when all the questions in the reader s head are just about to be answered is a good way to keep the pages turning again thanks on that one it means a lot to have you appreciate it so much what was your favorite book when you were a middle grader my favorite book as a middle grader would have to be where the red fern grows by wilson rawls we read it as a class in the 4 th grade and i fell in love with it it was the first book that made me feel and made me think beyond the story and think about the book when i wasn t reading it i bought my own copy and read it again i watched the movie and i even begged for a coonskin hat which i got for christmas i never got the dog s i asked for but one day the following summer i was playing in my yard when a stray dog ran up to play with me not making this up it was a red bone coonhound just like old dan and little ann in the books and needless to say it liked my hat very much i think that is when i first started to believe in the magic of stories and writing do you have a favorite place to write my favorite place to write is at my desk comfortable chair and keyboard and monitor good desk space great lighting and all that but more importantly is the time i like to write i love to write in the late hours of the night when the house is quiet and everyone else has gone to bed i can immerse myself so deeply in the story and the characters and the adventure going on all my characters come to life and i get live in the world of nalamist falls that is such a great time to hang out and be a kid again and have all kinds of adventures with my friends there have been times when i was up so late writing i couldn t really remember what i wrote the next day quite a fun surreal experience to reread those pages and find out all the things we d gotten into like it happened all on its own this book is the first in a series how many books will be in the series and when can we expect them i ve never really planned a certain number of books i ve written them all with no real voldemorte character at the end no final battle they re working towards i ve always written it as just separate adventures almost like a serial novel series which makes the final number of stories very indefinite which i like i can t imaging rusty s stories just being over and done and no more so terrible that being said there is a sense that something bad is coming something big even as i write this i don t know what it is but it s out there waiting it ll take shape one day and materialize out of the shadows of nalamist falls but i hope to write many of rusty s adventures before and after that we ll see as for other books there are two others already published finding the pack takes rusty to camp and forces him to deal with the pack issue he d rather not worry about and remembering the way is all about halloween at a supernatural prep school what could be better new friends and new enemies and all new adventures in nalamist falls those two books are out and available now hopefully up for review here soon wink wink and i ve plotted out the next two after that should be writing them in the not to distant future i need these things other fabulous mmgmers shannon whitney messenger kid lit frenzy my brain on books night writer book dreaming write about now just deb novel nouveau literary rambles middle grade mafioso i m so fifty books 4 learning ms yingling reads jennifer rumberger posted by bfav at 6 00 am 1 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels adventure fantasy marvelous middle grade monday friday july 12 2013 the list favorite twisted fairytales for middle graders if your kid likes a twist on a classic fairytale here is a must read list ella enchanted by gail carson levine goodreads blurb at birth ella is inadvertently cursed by an imprudent young fairy named lucinda who bestows on her the gift of obedience anything anyone tells her to do ella must obey another girl might have been cowed by this affliction but not feisty ella instead of making me docile lucinda s curse made a rebel of me or perhaps i was that way naturally when her beloved mother dies leaving her in the care of a mostly absent and avaricious father and later a loathsome stepmother and two treacherous stepsisters ella s life and well being seem to be in grave peril but her intelligence and saucy nature keep her in good stead as she sets out on a quest for freedom and self discovery as she tries to track down lucinda to undo the curse fending off ogres befriending elves and falling in love with a prince along the way half upon a time by james riley goodreads blurb jack lives in a fantasy world really he s the son of the infamous jack who stole the magic beans from the giant and he s working hard to restore his family s reputation he finds the perfect opportunity when a princess lands in front of him apparently from the land of punk as her punk princess sweatshirt implies may is from our world and she s utterly confused to find herself in the midst of the fairy tale characters she has read about but jack and may have more in common than they realize and together they embark on a hilarious and wild adventre in this highly accessible modern middle grade fantasy novel the wide awake princess by e d baker goodreads blurb in this new stand alone fairy tale princess annie is the younger sister to gwen the princess destined to be sleeping beauty when gwennie pricks her finger and the whole castle falls asleep only annie is awake and only annie blessed or cursed with being impervious to magic can venture out beyond the rose covered hedge for help she must find gwen s true love to kiss her awake in a glass grimmly by adam gidwitz goodreads blurb take caution ahead oversize plant life eerie amphibious royalty and fear inducing creatures abound lest you enter with dread follow jack and jill as they enter startling new landscapes that may or may not be scary bloody terrifying and altogether true step lively dear reader happily ever after isn t cutting it anymore rump the true story of rumpelstiltskin by liesl shurtliff goodreads blurb in a magical kingdom where your name is your destiny 12 year old rump is the butt of everyone s joke but when he finds an old spinning wheel his luck seems to change rump discovers he has a gift for spinning straw into gold his best friend red riding hood warns him that magic is dangerous and she s right with each thread he spins he weaves himself deeper into a curse to break the spell rump must go on a perilous quest fighting off pixies trolls poison apples and a wickedly foolish queen the odds are against him but with courage and friendship and a cheeky sense of humor he just might triumph in the end the frog princess by e d baker goodreads blurb princess emeralda a ka emma isn t exactly an ideal princess her laugh is more like a donkey s bray than tinkling bells she trips over her own feet and she does not like prince jorge whom her mother hopes she will marry but if emma ever thought to escape her troubles she never expected it to happen by turning into a frog when convinced to kiss a frog so he might return to being a prince somehow the spell is reversed and emma turns into a frog herself thus begins their adventure a quest to return to human form the land of stories the wishing spell by chris colf...