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I had forgotten about Michael Pollan. Years ago, I read Botany of Desire and fell completely in love with his writing. The way he took the reader, me, around the world and into the garden was a magic carpet ride into nature. “Plants are nature’s alchemists, expert at transforming
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Chapters 24 & 25 of How to Write a Children's Book: a 7-day Workshop in a Book
On Children's Book Writing
Mapping is the stage in which your book begins to take its actual form. I highly recommend starting with a 32-page structure. Yes, you can make your book longer or shorter, but, on average, children's picture books are 32 pages in length. Picture book pages are printed and
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Chapters 22 & 23 of How to Write a Children's Book: a 7-day Workshop in a Book
On Children's Book Writing
SPILL TWO You should be feeling pretty comfortable with the direction and flow of your story now. To wrap up the summarization stage, you will need to write one more spill. This time, the goal is to tell the story to entertain. Once again, imagine you are telling the story
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Chapters 19 to 21 of How to Write a Children's Book: a 7-day Workshop in a Book
On Children's Book Writing
Spill One We have twoWe have two more steps to go. Now that you’ve completed your sales description task, it is time to move into spills. The final two steps in the summarization process are to write two spills. A SPILL IS A QUICK SUMMARY. Much like the sales
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Chapters 18 of How to Write a Children's Book: a 7-day Workshop in a Book
On Children's Book Writing
The summarization step happens in three smaller steps. In this section,In this section, you will be writing a sales description, spill one, and spill two. SUMMARIZING your story in a couple of sentences helps you understand what you are writing. This is going to seem counterintuitive, but you will
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Hello friends, About this time every year, I remember something I overheard my mom say. I don’t remember exactly how old I was, but I was definitely a teenager. I was looking out the screen door passed the yard across the road and into the trees. I heard her
Hello friends, I remember something I overheard my mom say about this time every year. I don’t remember exactly how old I was, but I was definitely a teenager. I looked out the screen door, past the yard, across the road, and into the trees. I heard her say,
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Chapters 15,16, 17 of How to Write a Children's Book: a 7-day Workshop in a Book