Kristen Chandler-Author

This is from a guest author, Kristen Chandler's, presentation at the UCTE/LA conference at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.

Her book (that I am excited to read) is: Wolves, Boys, and Other Things that Might Kill Me

--became published when she quit trying to be a writer and went back to being a storyteller.
--literacy grows us and the world we live in.
--need to find something meaningful that you love to write about.
--reading and writing helps kids do big things.
--create space through language.
--find space in our students' media bombarded, cluttered minds.
--find the character and write for the character.
--on revision: you have to trust that it can be better.