Wow! great new format... bit more complicated, but nice!

Cheers
ojimenez

Thanks! It allows me to update it myself, unlike the old website, so perhaps it wont become obsolete and stagnant!

I'm very disturbed by the number of children who ask me about how I handle writer's block. When did teachers start teaching children about this? When did people start to label it? When I was a child, I wrote all the time and had no idea such a thing existed (if it does). I think what people label writer's block is an integral part of writing and you just keep going. But it's now treated as an illness and children (and adults) want a quick fix, like a pill, to get rid of it. Whew! Thanks for letting me get that off my chest because it really bothers me.

Sorry to be so long in responding to this, but I am on the road, as it were (currently in France)and time at the computer is scarce. But I did want to add my two cents worth about "writer's block". It's an annoying concept. Do brain surgeons get "neurosurgeons' block?" I don't think so. When it did become fashionable for writers to cop out in this way? Some days one is more productive, more creative than others. Big deal. It's a kind of romanticized idea, and I picture a woman in a peignoir collapsed on a couch with her hand over her forehead, murmuring, "I have writer's block." Get over it. And teachers: remove it from your vocabulary when dealing with young writers!