John Moss on Open Book

I teach a class at the University of Toronto, School of Continuing Studies called Writing for Children: Introduction (www.learn.utoronto.ca). I’ve been doing it for the past five years and it’s something I love. It forces me to think about the process of writing and to articulate it. The class is part didactic; I give a one hour lecture on some aspect of writing (i.e. character, setting, plot), and part workshop; the students bring in samples of their work and we as a group critique the writing.