Getting the Kids In

Writing good adult characters in our stories is hard enough, but writing convincing children—capturing their unpredictable brains, whacky speech patterns, wild movements, emotional swings, alternatively psychotic and heart-achingly sweet behavior—is a special and delightful challenge. Join this father of a two-and-a-half-year-old boy in an examination of some well-drawn children in literature and a discussion of how to coax real and imaginary kids to life in our own work.