…apologies for radio silence. Real Job has taken priority and swallowed my social life and writing career in giant Moby Dick gulps. But I shall be back! With a write up on Comic Con I’ll be attending this weekend and the continuing of the 52 Brilliant Ideas thinghy. Wordz are my power! *shazam*
Building up your repertoire of random facts will ensure that you are a hit at any party. Out comes things like: did you know that the Spanish newt, when confronted with an enemy, can make its RIBS puncture it’s skin…and then use those ribs to attack whatever it is that’s threatening it? No? Well, now [...]
** This is not part of the Writing Bestselling Children’s Books musings, that will come later on today. This is about general ruminations about faery tales and it was brought on by a wonderfully thoughtful and eloquent blogpost on Katherine Langrish’s website – Seven Miles of Steel Thistles. This is the utterly fascinating and fantastic blogpost [...]
Well, you know the adage for adults: women are from venus, men are from mars? Well, kids are actually a completely different species, entirely. Are they even human? Kidding, of course. In Chapter 9 if Gordon’s Writing Bestselling Children’s Books, he encourages us to spy on these odd aliens from another world. Like we people [...]
**This was supposed to have gone live yesterday, Sunday. I need to figure out why it didn’t, so apologies! Ah, we all play that game. The “I remember when” game. My dad was very good at it, hamming it up for all he was worth: “I remember when I was a kid, we didn’t have [...]
No, I am not kidding. I’ve seen it with my nieces and nephews, especially when they were younger. They can immediately tell when adults are getting bored with something and then they descend like a flock of angry seagulls. They can also tell when someone is faking it. Their BS metres are very sensitive. So [...]
Chapter six in Writing Bestselling Children’s Books asks us to be careful when we write books, in a fit of nostalgia whilst remembering our favourite books when growing up. The reason to this caution is simple: the books we read when we were younger are vastly different to what is currently on the market for kids and [...]
In Writing Bestselling Children’s Books Chapter 5 deals with “Finding Harry” – the title made me giggle, but actually, this is a pretty serious article. Basically, we are told be aware of what’s going on around us because most things can be used as fodder for writing. The odd snippet of conversation, a new name [...]
I ingested Chapter Four this morning and the gist is: don’t be scared of starting to write. It also addresses the question how to start writing. I’ve had the terror, I’m sure most writers have had it. You stare at that pristine white page on your computer screen or in your notebook and you think to [...]
A quick post before starting my working day in Real Life: In Chapter 3 in Writing Bestselling Children’s Books Gordy highlights the necessity of knowing the age-group you are writing for. These can be broken down into: Picture Books Beginners Readers Young Fiction Older and Teen / YA Fiction Best way to figure out what [...]
