Guest Post & Giveaway: Elizabeth O. Dulemba on What To Do When The Story Finds You

By Elizabeth O. Dulemba
for Cynthia Leitich Smith's Cynsations

I’ve heard authors say they didn’t feel like they wrote their story—more like they were a conduit to some greater force writing through them.

It sounded like a bunch of hooey until it happened to me.

They say you write what you read. Well, I grew up reading fantasy. I called it my brain candy.

So why was I suddenly writing this historical fiction middle grade, A Bird on Water Street (Little Pickle Press, 2014)?

It began during a meeting...