Originally posted on Writing for Kids (While Raising Them):
by Dianne de Las Casas Recently, I taught a picture book workshop to my local SCBWI chapter. One of the exercises I had workshop participants do was to create jacket flap copy (JFC). Normally, the marketing and sales department of your publisher handles writing that short…
Pre-PiBoIdMo Day 6: Let’s Get Visual with Mike Ciccotello (plus a prize!)
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Today’s post comes from the mind (and pencil) of illustrator Mike Ciccotello. Inspiring minds wanna know! Mike is an aspiring children’s book illustrator. He received a BFA with a concentration in painting from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. He has 13 years…
Pre-PiBoIdMo Day 5: See, Hear & Remember with Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen (plus a prize!)
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by Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen Thirty days, thirty picture book ideas. At first, that doesn’t sound too hard. And you’ll undoubtedly have terrific ideas in the first few weeks, nuggets that have been waiting to be uncovered for a while that PiBo is forcing you to excavate. But…
Pre-PiBoIdMo Day 4: Account for Your Creativity Like Patrick Guindon
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by Patrick Guindon Successful Creatives know that in order to succeed, you need structures in place. But wait! Doesn’t that go against everything “creative”? Don’t you need to live within an unorganized, tortured, magical mess in order to hit on the greatest ideas? Um. No. You…
Pre-PiBoIdMo Day 3: Tune In with Diana Murray (plus prizes!)
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by Diana Murray Inspiration is everywhere. It’s just a matter of tuning into it. And in order to do that, you need to switch on that part of your brain that reminds you to evaluate funny or interesting or poignant experiences and ask, “Could this be…
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