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…
Tag: How to Create Setting in Picture Books
How to Create Stronger Settings for Your Picture Books – Visualize the Details of the Story
in my debut book The Donkey’s Song, I wrote very few words about the setting. That book has 150 words, and I did not feel that the lyrical, magical tone of the book could bear a lot of “spelling things out.” But as I wrote the book, I was fully aware of where that story was…
Word Painting – How to Write Descriptively by Rebecca McClanahan
“If I were fully conscious of my surroundings at this moment, I would describe the light through the window, the way it searches out the apples in the glass bowl, buffing them to an unnatural sheen. I bought them for their fragrance, not their freshness, so even if you were to close your eyes, you’d…
14-Day Picture Book Challenge Day 2 – Describe the Setting of Your Picture Book
For the second day of the 14-Day Picture Book Challenge, your assignment is to describe the setting of the picture book that you will be writing. You don’t need to write in beautiful, poetic words yet. You don’t need to consider the voice or the format of your potential picture book. You don’t need to…