Mrs. McBride is available for classroom presentations dealing with curriculum topics such as: Writing, Generating Ideas for Writing, Synthesizing Picture Book Text and Illustrations, Story Structure, Journaling, Poetry Appreciation, and Poetry Writing. Other topics are available upon inquiry.
"...the writer's ending is, for the reader, always a beginning."
"I have come to love questions more than answers, for it is in our seeking that we are most alive, most open, most willing to come to new understanding."
"The expansiveness that comes from thinking someone else's thoughts and seeing through someone else's eyes is the chief gift bestowed by the written word."
"...if you listen carefully, as you read, you'll hear a voice whispering to you gently: "you are not alone."
“What you read becomes part of your human adventure, the world you will make with your words and your life.”
“There is a sweetness in being blindsided by life, by truth, by a dark corner suddenly illumined. There is sheer joy in epiphany.”
“…we seek an enlargement of being…We want to see with other eyes, to imagine with other imaginations, to feel with other hearts, as well as our own.”
“To write is to embark on a journey whose final destination we do not know. Thus, creative writing requires a real act of trust.”
“Editing is when you get to play with someone in the sandbox of language.”
“We take great care with our words, for they are meant to get into our bloodstream.”
“Cherish your curiosity. It is your questions that will shape you.”
“Every day I walk out into the world to be dazzled, then to be reflective.”
“Writing is a process in which we discover what lives in us”
“Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works.”
