The Raven – Jacki Kellum Watercolor Sold Janis Joplin – Jacki Kellum Watercolor Sold Little Napoleon: The Rooster – Jacki Kellum Watercolor Sold The Last Rose of Summer – Jacki Kellum Watercolor Sold Boy with Curls – Jacki Kellum Watercolor Sold Consider the Lilies: How They Grow – Jacki Kellum Watercolor Sold Fiesta – Jacki…
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How to Create a Text Dummy for a Picture Book – A Look at the Structures of Several Picture Books
In this post, I’ll show you how to create a picture book text dummy. Unlike an illustrator’s dummy, a text dummy is for writers. It will help picture book writers edit and re-edit their books. It will also help them with their book’s pacing–helping them understand where the page breaks should fall. This post also…
#14DayPBChallenge – Day 3 – February 2023 – Tips for Writing the First Draft of Your Picture Book
Today’s Priorities: Write the First Draft of Your Picture Book Write the First Draft of Your Picture Book In A Stream of Consciousness. Don’t over-analyze as you write. Don’t stop to correct your spelling or grammar. Just write. Write in a Stream of Consciousness to Hush Your Self-Editor Something about writing seems to intimidate…
A Daisy A Day – #stradaeasel Challenge 2023
2 Daisies in a Jelly Jar – Jacki Kellum Oil on Panel #stradaeasel Challenge Day 10 2 Daisies in a Jelly Jar – Jacki Kellum Digital Painting Created on Wacom Cintiq 16 #stradaeasel Challenge Day 12 Beginning on January 1, 2023, I jumped into the Strada Easel Challenge for 2023. For the previous 2 years,…
Story of the Bible Animals by J. G. Wood
Story OF THE Bible Animals: A Description of the Habits and Uses of every living Creature mentioned in the Scriptures, WITH Explanation of Passages in the Old and New Testament in which reference is made to them. Lions pg.19 Leopards pg. 42 Cats pg. 52 Dogs pg. 55 The Wolf pg. 69 The Fox or…
Sheep in the Bible
The bulk of the following text is from The Story of the Bible Animals by J. G. Woods. “Story of the Bible Animals by J. G. Wood.” Project Gutenberg, gutenberg.org/ebooks/44685 THE SHEEP. Importance of Sheep in the Bible—The Sheep the chief wealth of the pastoral tribes—Arab shepherds of the present day—Wanderings of the flocks in search of…
October – The Month that Has Inspired Many, Many Books
“First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys.”s ― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes Very possibly, Ray Bradbury has written more about the month of October than any other writer. Even when he is not specifically writing about October, visions of that month seem to be lurking somewhere within his consciousness. “The…
Describe the Land around Your Childhood Home
Your journal assignment for today is to describe the terrain or the countryside of the area around your childhood home. When I say describe, I mean just that. Provide sentences that capture how the countryside looked. Don’t just say: “I grew up 40 miles south of Fort Smith, Arkansas. Fort Smith has a population of…
Start a Daily Journaling Habit – Keep Up with Your Ideas and Random Thoughts – Get Ready for Memoir Mondays!
Most adults know this, and most college kids do, too: Organizing and Keeping-Up-With is the secret of success in most worlds. It is especially important for writers. Writers must not only keep up with appointments, but they must also keep up with ideas, too. And after we’ve finished writing a piece, we need to keep…