Aimee Haburjak and Kristi Wright wrote a post over at KidLit Craft that presents a nice, detailed breakdown of the picture book elements they found Wordy Birdy (written by Tammi Sauer, illustrated by Dave Mottram.
Check out the post here.
Tag: Kristi Wright
Playing with Wonder
Kristi Wright posted this blog entry at KidLitCraft a few weeks ago, and the idea of wonder has apparently been simmering in my brain since then.
I’m going back to a picture book idea I had just begun to play with in December, when I went to the Big Sur Writing Workshop. During the revise or write time, I let myself start a first draft. When I went back to it this weekend, a bit of wonder rose to the surface. The story seems to want to go that way, so I’ll be looking back at Kristi’s ideas and seeing what resonates.
Thought I would also share it here, since we can all use a little wonder in our lives.
MG Lunch Break…Come See What (and How) We’re Reading
A blog post or few ago, I said I had various reasons for starting up my blog again. And one of them is very cool–I got invited to join a great team at another blog, the MG Lunch Break writers and readers.
In their non-virtual lives, these writers meet in the real world, to have lunch and to talk about the middle-grade books they’re reading…from the point of view of the writing craft.
Because of the day job (there’s that work/life balance thing I mentioned a while back), I can’t join them for the actual lunches…
But the blog definitely felt like a way into my feelings about needing to work on my craft, finding a way to move my current WIP and my writing to the next level. What’s one of the best way to learn about writing–read books in your genre and actively examine how the authors do what they do. And share thoughts and ideas with other people doing the same thing.
So this was an invite I was not going to pass up. I’m in. I am pretty sure I know what my first book will be, but no reveal here yet. Check out the blog, though, and the great posts the other contributors have put up. I don’t think you’ll be disappointed!
Becky Levine 