How are you coming with the writing prompts? Are you giving yourself thirty minutes a day to work on these different ideas? I’ve decided, when Writing and Illustrating for Young Readers (www.wifyr.com) is over this year, I’m gonna go back through all these and do each one.
One per day.
Perhaps I will post some of my results. There seems to be serious interest in this blog and I want to keep this going. (Imagine a gif with people laughing their heads off, literally.)
I keep bugging my friend, Trent Reedy, to write a book with me.
He is a boy.
I am girl.
We would have different points of views. This is good in writing.
But I can tell my friend isn’t interested in the ideas I come up with.
He’s very kind about it but he has no passion for my ideas.
Not too long ago Ann Dee and I brainstormed the next book we want to write together. We have this terrific start that’s a little scary because we’re only sorta sure where it will go. SO we wanted to think of something else.
As we went back and forth, the ideas I felt excited about, she was sorta like, “Uuuuummmmm.”
And then when she came up with a new idea, I was like, “Eeeeerrrrr.”
We didn’t share a passion. And without that–Trent Reedy and I or Ann Dee and I–can’t get a good book on the page.
You must care about your work.
# 38
Do you care about your novel?
Why?
Why not?
Is it worth the hours, the sweat, the worry, the writing and rewriting you must do?
Why?
Why not?
Is this book worth sticking though the tough parts?
Why?
Why not?
Throwing Up Words 