Claudette Young's Page

Dur to a family emergency with concerning my father, I am forced to postpone my upcoming interview series until sometime in December. Hopefully, I'll be able to begin posting it in Jan.

I appreciate all the well wishes and am grateful for all of your kind thoughts and words.

I'll see you when I see you. I will have extremely limited access, if any, to a computer while I'm away.

Take care, all, and God bless.

Claudette

I'm planning a series of interviews with women writers/illustrators for my blog at: http;//claudsy.wordpress.com/. I'm still contemplating whether to post them here as well. Be sure and let me know what you think about having them here.

I've always been curious about what influences a writer's mental gears and shift ratio. (Okay, that was for the guys, but it's true nonetheless.) Our lives are influenced by all things outside of ourselves. But how much of an influence do we, as weiters, allow t… Continue

Whenever I sign in to any of my chosen websites, a sea of faces greet me. some new and some familiar, but always I ask, "Who are these people really?"

I can sit on some, for instance, and talk to no one, post nothing, just watch the goings on. I never have tiime to get bored with that. It's fascinating to watch the interactions and the ebb and flow of contacts taking place. I ask myself questions about these colleagues in the industry. What did they have for lunch? How many children do they hav… Continue

Will it be running this year? That is the question of my day. Anytime I can find a conference for free, I'll take it. So much is being done online now for every conceivable avenue of life, that online writer's conferences are bound to make a good showing since travel expenses and personal budgets are in conflict with professional needs and desires.

Perhaps those with far more experience than this one little newbie to the profession can answer this burning question. Is a conference on for this y… Continue