{ Welcome. }
Thanks for visiting my web page! I love to write and I want to share my ideas, creations, and blog with everyone. Writing for children allows me to be a perpetual child and feel no guilt for allowing my brain to think like a seven year old. (I highly recommend it!)
Writing books is not easy, and I continue to learn every day. It is a journey that I’m excited to share, and hope you enjoy.
—Pat McCaw
{ Welcome. }
Thanks for visiting my web page! I love to write and I want to share my ideas, creations, and blog with everyone. Writing for children allows me to be a perpetual child and feel no guilt for allowing my brain to think like a seven year old. (I highly recommend it!)
Writing books is not easy, and I continue to learn every day. It is a journey that I’m excited to share, and hope you enjoy.
—Pat McCaw
{ Pat’s Chat }
See what’s new on on my blog! My hope is to post every 1-2 weeks with a combination of adventure stories, craft/writing posts, book reviews, and other non-boring, exciting content to keep you coming back for more!
{ Pat’s Chat }
See what’s new on on my blog! My hope is to post every 1-2 weeks with a combination of adventure stories, craft/writing posts, book reviews, and other non-boring, exciting content to keep you coming back for more!
Writing Dialogue: Giving your Characters an Authentic Voice
Dialogue fills our world as we chat with family and friends. Often we recognize excitement, sorrow, or frustration in the spoken words or the tone of a voice. Dialogue plays an essential role in giving depth to writing. “Yo, dude, snag me a Butterbeer...
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Preparing Our Children for a Different World
I live in rural Iowa where people still hold the door open for you, strangers wave from their passing car, and there is a sense of peace in the Heartland. When a college girl gets kidnapped and killed in a rural town only minutes away, and then a twelve-year-old boy...
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Midlife crisis?
So - it could be a midlife crisis? I am inching up on 50, and the thought makes me barf. The kids are back to school and they apparently grew up overnight. Today a freshman - tomorrow college visits. Where did these ten pounds come from? Goodbye metabolism. I know...
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