Skellig

Skellig by David Almond

A strange little tale about a boy, moving to a new home that needs to be fixed up, a home whose last owner had died in it.  And then the baby came prematurely, and isn't well.  And the boy finds, in the ramshackle mess that is called a garage, a very strange man.  At first the boy thinks he's dead, covered with dust and dead insects.

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juggling levels

One thing writing is like is juggling.  (And so is revising.)  You're trying to juggle plot, character, theme, setting -- and the big picture of the overarching story, the medium picture of the succession of scenes, the little picture of the exact word choice.

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