From: Ginny Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 16:02:40 -0500

Thank you, Paul, for telling us about the origins of Seedfolk. Your insights demonstrate that Everything Matters. Everything. Although I often mutter internally, "Hmmm, material for a novel..." after I've observed a particularly interesting or even trying interchange or individual, I have no idea what to do with that material, and I have no actual intention of ever using it. However, your reference to
"the magnetism that takes place at this stage of a book" leads me to think that the Everything that matters is somehow available to real writers - anyway your message causes me to think you have unique access to the Everything. I'll reread Seedfolks tonight with your comments in mind. Meanwhile, where are our CCBC-NET companions, the ones who've had a chance to read Seedfolks? How about everyone who aleady read Bull Run? What would you like to tell or ask Paul Fleischman about either of these books written from multiple points-of-view? While you're thinking, I'll ask Paul if you found it difficult to give each Seedfolk character only one monologue - didn't some of them try to get into Seedfolks more than once? ... Ginny
********************************************* Ginny Moore Kruse (gmkruse at ccbc.soemadison.wisc.edu) Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) A Library of the School of Education University of Wisconsin - Madison 4290 Helen C. White Hall, 600 N. Park St. Madison, WI 53706 USA
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