Yesterday, I shared some statistics that support the fact that maintaining a good blog will increase any business’s SEO–including the businesses of writing and art. March Marketing – Start a Blog to Increase Your SEO All of the sources that I checked agree that the blogs that post images are much more successful than those…
Month: February 2023
A List of The Lessons in Jacki Kellum’s 2023 How to Write & Revise a Picture Book: the #14DayPBChallenge
Introduction to the Class Take the #14DayPBChallenge – Write, Revise, & Submit Your Picture Book for Publication I. Plan Your Picture Book #14DayPBChallenge – Day 1- February 2023 – Start Planning Your Picture Book II. How to Come Up with Ideas for Your Picture Book- includes a list of ideas with links to examples of…
March Marketing – Start a Blog to Increase Your SEO
I am an artist and a writer, and I could not begin to tell you how Google and SEO work, but I am certain that having an active blog helps you become more visible on Google. Fortunately, I began blogging at least 10 years ago. After years of scribing info into the wind, Google seems…
How to Create a Text Dummy for a Picture Book – A Look at the Structures of Several Picture Books
Are you trying to write your first picture book? It might be helpful if, very early in the process, you break your text into pages. Typically, there are 32 pages in a picture book, but the text of the book rarely begins on page one. Because the title page, endpapers, the dedication & the copyright…
Chrysanthemum – A Picture Book by Kevin Henkes – An Anthem Against Bullying
Chrysanthemum Kevin Henkes 1988 – Green Willow Books Chrysanthemum is one of my all-time favorite picture book characters. Her life was perfect until the other kids at school told her that she had a terrible name. Chrysanthemum sack puppet Designed and Created by Jacki Kellum Chrysanthemum thought her name was absolutely perfect. And then she…
Research to Fully Understand the Details of Your Picture Book- Free Places to Find the Facts
In another post, I discuss the importance of filling your mind with details about your story before you finish turning them into a picture book. How to Create Stronger Settings for Your Picture Books – Visualize the Details of the Story In the above post, I tell you that I memorized the Bible’s Christmas Story…
How Many Pages in a Picture Book? Which Page is Page One?
While most picture books have 32 pages, that is not an absolute rule. In this post, I’ll show you several picture books, and I’l show you that page one of a picture book really isn’t page one. I’ll begin with my own picture book The Donkey’s Song. The Donkey’s Song Jacki Kellum Illustrated by Sydney…
Write The First Draft of Your Picture Book – Write First, Edit Later
Write the First Draft of Your Picture Book. Don’t Title Your Story Until You Have Finished Writing It. Write the book in your natural voice–pretend that you are simply talking. Write the First Draft of Your Picture Book In A Stream of Consciousness. Don’t stop writing to edit or to check your spelling. Just Write…
How My Intuition Wrote My Picture Book The Donkey’s Song
When I am painting and when I am writing, I consider it a great day when something within myself takes over and essentially completes my project for me. This gentle urging is intuition. It is the spark that helped Michelangelo release his sculptures from a piece of rock. Janis Joplin – Jacki Kellum Watercolor My…
Picture Writing – How Jacki Kellum Wrote Her Debut Picture Book The Donkey’s Song
I am a painter, as well as a writer, and perhaps that is why I mentally “see” what I am writing before I begin to write. For years I have heard that children are either visual learners or verbal learners. I am both, but I am probably more visual than I am verbal. I Call…