Why we write what we write, upcoming events and Spike lives!

I went to an SCBWI event at the Eric Carle Museum on Saturday and it was fantastic. jeannineatkins has a wonderful overview on her blog. On the drive down, my husband and I talked about what our next projects should be, and why we were a little afraid of the ones our hearts were telling us to write. He was struggling with setting, I was struggling with structure. But at the recent retreat I went to, I learned some tips for how to talk about your work-in-progress, so the two of us took turns a...