I could write forever on how to improve one’s writing craft because mastery is soul-nourishing. I often tell people that I’m trying to start the “slow-thought” movement. We do a lot of communicating, but we’re not encouraged to do the kind of deep thinking and self-reflection that writing is all about. In a world awash in social media, one in which we’re constantly in touch with others via text, video, email, etc, we’re constantly reacting to stimuli. My other main subject is writing itself, and how it’s the creative art with the potential to teach us the most about ourselves. I’d say most of my writing is about the importance of family and friendships and reveals the humor and emotion in mundane events. I’ve written over twenty novels for younger readers-think Young Adult and tween audiences-but I also write poetry and essays.
I’ve been a bestselling novelist, an editor at a Big Five publishing house, and a writing instructor at almost every level, from third grade to a Master’s degree program. I’m Lisa Papademetriou, and I’m the founder of Bookflow, which is software that helps writers stay motivated and organized. Lisa Papademetiou writes for our publication but is also connected through other writing projects (if I can get my act together, you might hear her in a new season of our podcast).
And even the perfect kids seem to be Chasing Normal too.One of the best things about co-managing The Writing Cooperative is connecting with writers from all over. That even though she and her dad aren’t a conventional family and aren’t rich and don’t go to church they are incredibly lucky to have each other and to have love. But as the summer progresses and Mieka learns a thing or two about herself hey, she can actually learn to enjoy herself at camp, even if it is Bible camp and she happens to be a bit chubbier than every other camper there and her family members she realizes that there’s no such thing as normal. She’s blond, beautiful, fit, friendly, popular and practically perfect.
Aunt Kate stays at home with the kids where IS Mieka’s mom anyway?, Uncle Dave wears a suit to work, cousin Mark is a genius and Greta well, she’s Mieka’s age but that’s where the similarity ends. It’s all too much to handle, especially when she has to stay with her Aunt Kate’s family. She tells Mieka she’s fat, frumpy, and basically unwanted. Grandma Baker isn’t just brutally honest, she’s brutal.
It’s tough enough that her mom left a few years ago and that her artist dad decorates the house solely with ‘treasures’ from the ‘vintage’ store read: all their furniture is made out of plastic but it’s just too much when Mieka and her dad have to leave Boston to go to spend the summer with her sick grandmother in Texas someone Mieka has never met.
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