With Lego Builder “Brickplate”
I help Lego builder “brickplate” (Sid Dinsay) install his model of St. Patrick’s Cathedral at the Lego Store in Rockefeller Center.
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Sparks Flew: Letting Your Words and Pictures Show the Story
Rather than telling how a character feels, or what the reader should think, the writer creates an image and lets the reader draw conclusions.
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Waylaid in Winter Village: Setting
Details are important, and a story with a well-drawn and well-integrated setting cannot take place anywhere else.
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Complicating the Minifig: Layered Narrative
In contrast to linear, chronological narrative, a layered narrative plays with time sequence to reveal character bit by bit and to build curiosity and suspense.
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Minifigs: Character, Personality, and Action
By keeping the expressions and clothing of my minifigs consistent, I give them identity and personality. Writers must do the same with characters.
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Winner, Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature, 2023!
