Image Blog Insight

| Tasha

Lee Wind tweeted about this wonderful piece on the Image Blog. It’s about the culture of writers and being part of the clique, and being an outsider.

And it rang bells for me about our discussions about what it is to be a children’s lit blogger. Here is the paragraph that made my head ring:

“The trick, I suppose, is to stay clear on the distinction between solidarity and schmoozing, on the fact that pecking order does not necessarily reward merit, and on the old saw that some people will always have more than you and some less. The trick, even for a combative, competitive, insecure former seventh-grader, is to put the work first.”

Does it get your head ringing too?

5 thoughts on “Image Blog Insight”

  1. Ooh. Bingo.
    It’s great to be a part of something, to go to conferences or schmooze in NY somewhere, because that’s a lot of where the “action” is, but the fact is, schmoozing means you’re not working — whether that’s booktalking or book writing.

    Thanks for the heads up on this.

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  2. Seventh grade really never goes away, does it…Except that I hope I have learned the lesson contained in so many mg books, that it is the interesting people on the edge that one should try to be friends with!

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  3. nervously adding, lest well intentioned comment go wrong in true seventh grade fashion, that this is not to say that I don’t like and admire many of the alpha kidlit bloggers.

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  4. The advantage of blogging about children’s lit is that, to some degree at least, you can live outside the “pecking order”. You can then be successful by simply following what you love doing!

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