This post has an excellent list of ways to make sure your manuscript is marketable! Love this as a resource. Thank you, Tara and Tara!
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STORYSTORM 2018 Day 20: Kate Dopirak & Mary Peterson Ask . . . What is Worth Illustrating?
Great post! I’ve always thought about this illustration and that illustration for my picture book manuscripts, but I’ve never considered if they’d are WORTH illustrating!
Thanks, Kate, Mary, and Tara!
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STORYSTORM 2018 Day 19: Karen Rostoker-Gruber Digs Down Deep
Dig down deep and daydream about your younger years. Recall incidents, feelings, and experiences and get ready to catch those story ideas as they spring to mind!
Thanks, Karen and Tara!
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STORYSTORM 2018 Day 18: Worlds Collide for Jarrett Lerner
When worlds collide? Check out this fun way to come up with story ideas. 🙂
Thanks, Jarrett and Tara!
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STORYSTORM 2018 Day 17: Michelle Cusolito Flies Deep
Ooh, making lists of things we are curious about and things that capture our imagination and things we love! This is the perfect way to fly deep and dig up ideas for picture books!
Thanks, Michelle! Thanks, Tara!
STORYSTORM 2018 Day 16: Tami Charles Might Fail (and that’s OK!)
Not every day comes with a deluge of perfect picture book ideas. Some days ideas might shower down for future projects while other days are as dry as the Sahara Desert. Nada.
Thanks, Tami, for your encouraging words. Thanks, Tara, for STORYSTORM!
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STORYSTORM 2018 Day 15: Melissa Iwai Mines Her Dreams
Dreams are amazing (and weird and sometimes terrifying). But they can also be a source of ideas for stories. The important thing to do is to write down your dreams as soon as you wake up, or, POOF, the ideas will be gone. Not that my dream last night of spell-checking the name of my granddaughter’s teacher would make a good story…but still. You get the idea! Write it down.
Thanks, Melissa! Thanks, Tara!
STORYSTORM 2018 Day 14: Rachelle Burk Shares Resources
Do you need resources? This post (and Rachelle’s site) are chock full of anything a writer could need! Wow!
Thanks, Rachelle! Thanks, Tara!
STORYSTORM 2018 Day 11: Sue Fliess Listens to Her Handyman . . . ?
Sue is perfectly correct. Ideas can come from any person, place, thing, situation, encounter… This creative process is certainly difficult to explain to someone who doesn’t wake up in the middle of the night to write down an idea or grasps any bit of paper to jot down the perfect character before the idea is lost. Great post!
Thanks, Sue! Thanks, Tara!
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STORYSTORM 2018 Day 10: Heidi E. Y. Stemple Keeps Every Single One
Oh, I am totally on board with this! Keep every single idea! Some will be good, some not so good, some good now, others won’t be ready until years from now.
The big thing is to keep them all. Now. If I would take that next step and LOOK at my files of ideas…
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Thanks, Heidi! Thanks, Tara!
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