World Lit Wednesday...

...will be back next week. I'm reading Miss Chopsticks by Xinran (China), and am looking forward to sharing my thoughts on it with you, as I am already liking it a lot.

In the meantime, here is a mixed bag of links to some interesting writerly bog posts I've read recently:

• A guest post about feminism in YA by Stephanie Su over on Kody Keplinger's blog.
• Kiersten White's thoughts on how it feels to be a writer.
• Rachelle Gardner's very helpful post "What the Fiction Editor Looks For" Part One and Part Two.
• And a post from teacher John T Spencer on how schools may be killing the joy of writing in kids (via my super cool English teacher/blogger friend Jeff)

Enjoy! I'll be back at the end of the week. Now I'm going to dive back into my rewrite of chapter three of Water Magic, in which karate meets Shakespeare meets runaway dog meets what's-in-this-abandoned-house-anyway meets oh-crap-it's-the-entrance-to-a-parallel-world-with-faeries-and-dragons-and-magical-trees. And don't get me started on the binturong.