PiBoIdMo 2012

And it is here again Picture Book Idea Month and I am excited as always – I will try to post everyday again during the challenge as I find that works best for my own momentum. I will be sorting out 30 ideas though I have to confess I see this more as a consolidation process this year – I’ve got words and snippets of things laying in note books that need collecting together!

I have also been taking part in the 12×12 in 2012 challenge were the idea was to end up with 12 finished picture books at the end of the year – well I am behind on this so my aim is to use this challenge to help me complete! I sadly seem to have lost all the twitter and Facebook feeds for it too – I did stuff right at the beginning of the year but was so busy over the summer I didn’t that much time on the net and then was without my laptop for two and a half months!

I did a similar self challenge in October to balance out my Gothic Novel frenzy and the results were a finished The Little Book of Spoogy Poetry which was amazing as that included all the illustrations and digitizing and putting the book together and copy editing and page setting and everything – I did have extrernal help for the later bits. For a start I am such a bad speller (as you have probably been wincing over) that to do anything without edits is impossible!

Now last year I used this challenge to help put together The Little Book of Festive Poetry which I sold to raise money for my little girls school library but they were all hand made as it were – I’d printed and stapled and decorated the front covers in metallic pens and there were only ever going to be 100 of them. This year I would love to get an actual print done and to maybe produce an audio book like I did for The Little Book of Easter Poetry earlier this year.

To sort out The Little Book of Festive Poetry would be brilliant as it was one of my first ideas in the first PiBoIdMo 🙂

So I am aiming to spend a minimum of 30 hours on my kid lit stuff this month – of course I am also doing NaNoWriMo as well which is a continuation of my horror story so it’s going to be a tight squeeze!

Wish me luck and here I go!

Posted: Thursday, November 1st, 2012 @ 8:04 pm
Categories: Easter Poetry, Festive Poetry, Little Books of Poetry, PiBoIdMo, Spoogy Poetry.
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