Four equally spaced seasons, and yet..............

Pink Cosmos

During the revision process, some questions arose.  One reviewer was curious as to why summer's beat differs so dramatically in style from the other three books.  I was surprised by that also.

I wrote summer's beat first, and that's the way it wanted to be written.  That's how summer wanted to be expressed. 

Then when I started writing about autumn, and it came out in another style, I thought, oh, every season is going to be different. But then winter and spring followed the same path as autumn.

So my only explanation is that my best writing flows (not easily, though, and there's always a whole lot of editing going on) and I have to let it.  Plus, despite the fact that each season is totally unique, summer, from a kid's point of view especially, is special.  Summer is experienced in a different way.  And summer wanted to be written about in a different way.