Picture Books 5

7 Children’s Picture Book Manuscripts in 7 Days

I’m taking the 7 in 7 picture book challenge.

Report on 7 in 7 for the first week of May, 2009
Overall: This was an interesting exercise that I’d like to repeat in a slower month, not May. Why is the Nanowrimo in November and this had to be in [...]

Picture Book 4

7 Children’s Picture Book Manuscripts in 7 Days

I’m taking the 7 in 7 picture book challenge.

Report on 7 in 7 for the first week of May, 2009

May 7
May 6. Historical Fiction. OK, here comes the rationalization for why I don’t have a good draft done. A couple years ago, a friend told me [...]

Picture Book 3

7 Children’s Picture Book Manuscripts in 7 Days

I’m taking the 7 in 7 picture book challenge.

Report on 7 in 7 for the first week of May, 2009

May 7
May 6
Note: This is a note of general frustration with writing 7 picture books in 7 days. I want to dig in and revise, which I [...]

Picture Book 2

7 Children’s Picture Book Manuscripts in 7 Days

I’m taking the 7 in 7 picture book challenge.

Report on 7 in 7 for the first week of May, 2009

May 7
May 6
May 5
May 4: Delaware and Miriam. OK. This is getting hard! Picture books are short, yes, but that doesn’t mean they are easy to [...]

Picture book 1

7 Children’s Picture Book Manuscripts in 7 Days
I’m taking the 7 in 7 picture book challenge.

Report on 7 in 7 for the first week of May, 2009

May 1: Violet Ivy’s Button Eyes. 1128 words.

May 2: ABC book. OK, so it’s one I had half-way started before and abandoned because I had blanks for [...]

7 in 7

Have you decided to join the National Picture Book Writing Week? It started today and you need to write a picture book (with a beginning, middle and end) each day.
Of course, if you write seven, you’ll need to revise seven! So, come back the next week and read through my series, 30 Days to [...]

Top 10 Picture Book Topics to Avoid

Stiff Competition for These Picture Book Topics
For several years, information on writing a picture book has been available free on this site. It’s now available altogether as a 110 page pdf file, How to Write a Children’s Picture Book.
Dial editor, Liz Waniewski (ONE–es-key) spoke at the Arkansas SCBWI 2007 conference. For a couple months [...]

Effective Picture Book Subtitles

Do picture books need subtitles? Well, no, not strictly. Just like any other book, a subtitle is a chance to tell the prospective reader something more about the topic of the book.

Messages, Morals and Lessons in Picture Books

A reader asks, “I’m wondering if there is an objective way of measuring didacticism in an PB manuscript.”

Voice for Picture Books

Voice is important, whether you’re writing a novel or a picture book.
One question that often arises is, “Can you revise for voice?” Yes. Here’s an example of how it worked for me.