Kathryn Page Camp
Monday, November 25, 2019
Writing Outside Your Culture: Naming Characters
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As mentioned in previous posts, the main character in Creating Esther is an Ojibwe girl who goes to an Indian boarding school in 1895. ...
Monday, November 18, 2019
Writing Outside Your Culture: The Importance of Group Names
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When writing outside your race or culture, it is particularly important to avoid labels that unintentionally disparage the race or cultu...
Monday, November 11, 2019
Researching CREATING ESTHER, Part II
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My research for writing Creating Esther wasn’t limited to documents. I also dragged Roland along on a trip through Ojibwe country in Mic...
Monday, November 4, 2019
Researching CREATING ESTHER, Part I
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My research for any historical novel begins with reading as many first-person accounts as I can. This is especially important when writi...
Monday, October 28, 2019
Creating Esther
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After numerous submissions to publishers and agents, I decided to self-publish my second middle-grade historical novel . Once that decis...
Monday, October 21, 2019
Story Over Message
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I’ve been reading Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. It’s an easy read for a book published in 1719, but many passages are mini-sermons. T...
Monday, October 14, 2019
Brushing Teeth and Cleaning House
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In the last two weeks I saw several of my old colleagues from the Indiana Writers’ Consortium and had a good time visiting with them. Du...
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