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Todd Mitchell

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Todd Mitchell is the author of several award-winning middle grade and YA novels including The Last Panther (Penguin Random House), The Traitor King (Scholastic), The Secret to Lying (Candlewick), and Backwards (Candlewick). He has two new books coming out in fall 2021—one for writers, artists, and creators titled Breakthrough: How to Overcome Doubt, Fear, and Resistance so that You Can Be Your Ultimate Creative Self, and a middle grade novel that's recently been optioned for film/TV development titled The Namer of Spirits.
He lives in Fort Collins, Colorado, where he kayaks, mountain bikes, and teaches creative writing at Colorado State University. He loves speaking with young readers and writers. You can visit him (and learn about his squi
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For all you writers out there, this is from Robert McKee, the guru of story:

"Life teaches that the measure of the value of any human desire is in direct proportion to the risk involved in its pursuit. ...For we not only create stories as metaphors for life, we create them as metaphors for meaningful life —and to live meaningfully is to be at perpetual risk."

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Published on February 27, 2012 08:51 Tags: author-visits, quotes, risk, story, writing-quotes
Average rating: 3.81 · 2,508 ratings · 565 reviews · 16 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Secret to Lying

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The Last Panther

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Backwards

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"Mitchell’s hard-earned credo is: “Don’t waste any more energy worrying about how you compare. Instead, allow yourself to do what only you can do, and focus on loving the process as you do.”

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“It was the people who tried to seem normal all the time who were really messed up”
Todd Mitchell, The Secret to Lying

“Most people would call me incompetent, clumsy, flawed..."

"A pearl is a flaw. A diamond is an accident of nature. In all of creation, there's nothing more precious than the unexpected deviation.”
Todd Mitchell, A Flight of Angels

“ghost44: It's only when it's dark out that we can see the stars shine.”
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Todd Mitchell Get your writing on.
5 authors. 5 genres. 5 quick writing exercises. Go if you dare.

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Todd Mitchell I'm new to Goodreads. Still trying to figure out how this all works, so if I do something silly, please don't taunt me too much.

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