I've been struggling to come up with a new title for one of my polished picture book manuscripts. The title I had been using was suggested in a critique, and it played off of a current title on the market. It rolled off the tongue and gave a good feel for the story, or so … Continue reading Teaching Tuesday – Titles and Twain
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Teaching Tuesday – Finding Inspiration and Toto
With this inaugural Teaching Tuesday, I've decided to start at the beginning of the writing process. Namely, inspiration. We grow up reading books and watching movies in which writers must somehow find their inspiration. Often we meet them when they are struggling, their creativity blocked...and then, BOOM, they are struck by the Muse—perhaps in the … Continue reading Teaching Tuesday – Finding Inspiration and Toto
Teaching Tuesday
Studies have shown that we learn better when we teach others. By organizing information in a way that allows us to explain it to someone else, we clarify and reinforce it in our own minds. Although I learn all sorts of new things each day (many of them quite useless), my specific effort has been … Continue reading Teaching Tuesday
