Christiana Doucette

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Repped by @LiteraryLeslieZ at Odom Media Management
2022/2023 San Diego Writers Kids Write Judge
SCBWI mentee of Joy McCullough
Mentee of Gail Villanueva
Highlights Foundation Scholarship Recipient

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Writing communities: SCBWI, Quokka Crew, MGpies, The Forge, Verse Novel Writers

My Websitehttps://christianadoucette.wordpress.com/
Twitterhttps://twitter.com/doucette515
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Current ReadMastering Plot Twists, Things Fall Apart, Creating Character Arcs, No Matter the Distance, and A Consuming Fire
Christiana DoucetteMar 31

Middle Grade Verse Novel Stats 2026

It's my favorite month. National Poetry Month! And of course, I have updated middle grade novel-in-verse statistics to share. In 2025, I included verse novel awards as part of my infographic. This year, I'm not doing that here, but I will be posting each of the 2025 middle grade verse novels with lists of what recognition they've gotten (and a little bit about why you'd like to read the story in the caption) each day on my…

https://christianadoucette.wordpress.com/2026/03/31/middle-grade-verse-novel-stats-2026/

Middle Grade Verse Novel Stats 2026

It’s my favorite month. National Poetry Month! And of course, I have updated middle grade novel-in-verse statistics to share. In 2025, I included verse novel awards as part of my infographic.…

Christiana Doucette
Christiana DoucetteApr 22, 2023
I baked two birthday cakes yesterday and frosted them today. One is definitely leaning a bit. Thankfully 3yo won’t mind.
Christiana DoucetteFeb 19, 2023
Poor pitiful 2yo is sick this morning. And she's so cute, but so miserable. Tempering expectations for writing/revision for the day, for sure.
Christiana DoucetteFeb 16, 2023
I like making lists. There's just something about organizing information that I really enjoy. I like how it lets me look at information in different ways. Especially when I have a list in Google Sheets or Excel.
Christiana DoucetteFeb 14, 2023
My 2yo is wandering the house in a Valentine Candy burst of energy asking for more "allowee" aka Halloween.
Christiana DoucetteFeb 13, 2023
Show threadAndrew KarreFeb 13, 2023
@doucette515 I often think of two of my favorite stories that are explicitly about something very specific, but are aslo—and perhaps more importantly—fundamentally about America: The Godfather and The Wire. Both unambiguously announce this in their beginnings and every time I rewatch them, I’m struck by how effective those beginnings are.
Christiana DoucetteFeb 13, 2023
Show threadAndrew KarreFeb 13, 2023
@doucette515 For example, the Neil Young song “Powderfinger” popped up on shuffle this morning. I always find it thought-provoking to try to build that song into a novel and to notice why I find it so easy to do this from a relatively short ballad. Why do the charaters seem so rich? Why does the scenario feel urgent?
Christiana DoucetteFeb 13, 2023
Show threadAndrew KarreFeb 13, 2023
@doucette515 Make a habit of reading like a writer. If there are things you regularly struggle with, be aggressive about noticing and analyzing them in every book, show, or film you consume. Songs too. I actually find this practice most helpful across media. Notice how movies handle POV. Observe how TV shows deal with where to begin a long story. Can you name all the important storytelling moves of your favorite movies? I find this exercise enormously useful.
Christiana DoucetteFeb 13, 2023
Show threadAndrew KarreFeb 13, 2023
@doucette515 Sorry for the delay. I don’t have any go-to writing resources, to be honst. There are many good ones, I’m sure, but they’re not something I find myself returning to. There are some media consumption habits that are really important to me, though, as an editor. They might be useful for writers too:
Christiana DoucetteFeb 10, 2023

Tomorrow is the first gathering of my Verse Novel critique group since December and I just can't wait to see their faces.

Two of the five of us are on sub. One has a verse novel publishing later this year. (You can preorder here: https://bookshop.org/p/books/i-am-kavi-thushanthi-ponweera/19529111?ean=9780823453658) And one is re-entering the query trenches.