Janet Aljunaidi
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Kate DiCamillo:
My 12-yr-old wrote that she loved your characters because "None of them are perfect, but they all mean well. Like the preacher tries hard to be a good dad, but he's always busy with being a preacher." Do your characters show up in your head with a flaw already or as the story comes out the flaw(s) reveal themselves? Thank you!
Kate DiCamillo
Ah, Janet. You have a smart 12 year old. The characters show up as real people to me. And we're all flawed, right? I certainly am. But yet I keep trying. I mean well.
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Beth Cook
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Kate DiCamillo:
They say that all aspiring writers sometimes think, "I'm terrible at this, I'm a fraud, there are so many better writers than me, no one is ever going to publish or read this stuff, I should get a sensible career," (etc). I know I sometimes think this way. Did you experience this when you were starting out, and if so, how did you work through it?
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