Dashka Slater: Reviving Your Stalled Career
Dashka Slater is the author of many fabulous picture books as well as the much lauded 2017 YA true crime novel, THE 57 BUS. But between these latest titles and her first few, Dashka felt stalled in her career for years. During that time, she bravely reached out to a fellow author she thought might be in a similar position, Marsha Diane Arnold. They became complaining buddies—Dashka highly recommends this as a coping strategy. As she looks back on those formative seven years of not selling, Dashka sees now it made her a much better writer and author, and that reflecting on that stalled time will help her the next time this happens because she has also learned this career is not a straight road. Dashka shares some goals for this session: Goal #1: Diagnose the stall Goal #2: Get your mojo back Goal #3: Know that you are not alone Goal #4: Protect yourself against future stalls Dashka contacted other writers besides Marsha that also had seemed to stall. Here are a few of those stall examp...