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As always, you can stop by KidLitArt or Dog-eared Sketchbook for ideas on how to get started. If you're in need of a bit more tinder, maybe these thoughts from Pat Mora will spark something.
- Remember your child-self, your feelings, childhood memories, worries and pleasures. (Most picture books are for 3-10 year olds.)
- Create your writing time and mull--about what to write, about how to write it, about how to be daring. Among your key resources are your love of stories and language, your spirit, imagination and persistence.
- Be welcoming of your writing. Welcome your ideas as you would welcome a guest. Resist thinking negatively about
- Read picture books both old and new.
I won't be posting my work online, as I'm hoping to see it published, but I will say I'm tackling a rhyming text. WHAT AM I THINKING?!? I do not recommend poetic text unless you're really good at it. I am not, but no matter how many times I write this story, it inevitably comes out in rhyme. Who am I to argue with my muse?
If you need some poetic inspiration, try these classics:
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| Piping Down the Valleys Wild Ed. Nancy Lamb |
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| Side By Side Poems to Read Together Lee Bennett Hopkins |
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| Sheep In A Jeep Written by Nancy Shaw |
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| Bear Snores On Written by Karma Wilson |
I've heard that editors hate rhyming texts, but I have to say that kids I read to LOVE it -- even my tough almost grown 10 year-olds love a rhyming good story. So if you get discouraged, read it to a child, you'll get your zing back. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks, Joy. I think you're right. I would say editor's hate POOR rhyming texts. I'm definitely aiming for zing-y instead.
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