CHILD LIKE....
As I said in the last post, I have been attempting PiBoIdMo...picture book idea month. Although I expanded horizons slightly and allowed it to be a month of children book ideas. Picture book, poetry, short story, novel. And yes, at the end of the month I had 30 ideas. I'm not saying they are all amazing ideas, in fact a few are very very boringly ordinary...but... There are three I am quite excited about. Two could be picture books, one a junior novel. So the ideas were flowing...the difficult part is being in a child's mind. Although there are many that will say I am well and truly there, childish in so many ways. Monkey comes to mind.... as does a certain sock puppet who came away with my writing group for a writing retreat. She really threw herself into this weekend away. She read and she wrote (well she sat behind a keyboard and industriously tapped away- as so many of us do). She joined us for meals and our lamentations over the publishing ...