But the bare bones basics?
Seven picture books in seven days.
You heard me, seven first draft, rough basic beginning points for picture books generated in seven days. Sound like fun??
I thought so too! I've been doing doodles and cartoons like the one on the right for a while now, and my big bro (brother-in-law-to-be, actually, but bleh, what a mouthful!) had been encouraging me to think about doing a children's book (something new and wildly different for me) when the first of Ms. Yoo's tweets about the event caught my attention.
Who am I to ignore the pokings and prodings of fate? ;)
Day 1 started with a bang, my midnight writing sprint running over when I forgot to stop and the first draft for the first book was finished before I went to bed. About 1100 words, and not all of them terrible. I've planned out (roughly) at least the next three, so we'll see how far I make it this week. I'll be getting back to work here in a little bit, hopefully making inroads into the next first draft. But today? Already a good day!
Wow - glad you're off to a flying start! Yes, the pokings and proddings of fate brought me to Paula, too - a little over 12 months ago! I somehow stumbled across her blog just before NaPiBoWriWee was kicking off last year and thought: "Let's do this!" It's great :)
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