In doing the NaPiBoWriWee I discovered that one of my stories was infact part of a series – There’s a Dargon in the Compost Heap turned out to be about Jean and her House Dragon Horace. These were another of my story ideas from PiBoIdMo. The thing is I think I feel more stories in […]
I have finially finished my NaPiBoWriWee challenge 🙂 it took a good long while i.e. a week extra – this is mainly becuase though there was only really two stories left to write these were: 1) There’s a Dragon in the Compost Heap 2) Earth, Wind, Fire And these were longer stories than the Hetty […]
Well I have five and half picture books written – I’m not going to finish the challenge but I’ve decided it doesn’t really matter – I have almost six drafts which is more than I would have had and as it’s all the Hetty Peglar stories done – it should give me enough time to […]
It is the first day of the National Picture Book Writing Week and I have realised I am away doing things until late on the 3rd 🙁 . I am taking my note book and hope to maybe get some writing done in the car! I spent last week looking through my lists of picture […]
Next week sees NaPiBoWriWee or National Picture Book Writing Week which like the NaNoWriMo and PiBoIdMo is a writing challenge and yes I am doing it! This one involves trying to write seven picture books in seven days and to make it worse I am away for the first two days of it! This means […]
I have been producing a lot of visual poetry at the moment – I’m really sure if that’s what it is but it’s sort of a mix of writing and visual art for me. This month I have as well as Scriptfrenzy been taking part in a poem a day challenge NaPoWriMo but as I […]
Because I am bonkers and love my writing challenges I am currently taking part in Script Frenzy which is a sort of off shoot of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) and I have decided to a comic book script of it! I’m mentioning it here as I will abviously be illustrating this at some point […]
I didn’t manage to get any illustration type stuff done for the stories but I did use the glove puppets when I read them out at my little girls Easter Egg Hunt – I had a room full of over excited, chocolate filled 3-9 year olds, a lot of whom where five! There where 17 […]
With the Easter stories as I’m thinking of them and some of the children’s rhymes I have written, I am thinking of myself as a modern day Beatrix Potter. Of course my personal life is completely different but I mean from a stylistic point of view – kids love animals but they are no longer […]
I’ve now written this story too – it is about a chicken who suddenly finds herself raising ducklings. She is a foster mother and runs along clucking when the ducklings go swimming. The story is based on my nan’s tale of putting duck eggs under the chickens as they are better ‘sitters’ so more eggs […]