title: Spilling Ink: A Young Writer's Handbook
author:  Ellen Potter 
description: Two fine writers put their heads together and come up with an equally fine guide to their craft for beginners. Avoiding traditional chapters, the coauthors address issues by turns in short personal takes. Mazer speaks to beginnings, for example, while Potter tackles endings; and both have diverting things to say about everything that happens in between, whether its the narrative voice or (eek) writers block. Always agreeable, practical, and commonsensical in their approach, the two are also refreshingly permissive (its fine to break rules), though they add the caveat that rule breakage should come from a knowledge of said rules and a good reason for breaking them. Their text is enlivened with sidebar features, personal anecdotes, and suggestions to readers for exercising their new skills (happily these arent called Exercises but, instead, I Dare You). Such devices, along with the authors unfailing good humor, will go a long way to convincing their audience that writing can actually be fun! A notion that is nicely underscored by Phelans engaging and always appealing illustrations. Grades 5-9. --Michael Cart
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  ## Elise Faber
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  BY ELISE FABER
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  This is a work of fiction. Names, places, characters, and events are
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  Copyright © 2020 Elise Faber
  
  
  Print ISBN-13: 978-1-946140-76-0
  
  
  Ebook ISBN-13: 978-1-946140-75-3
  
  
  Cover Art by Jena Brignola
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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