Each step toward a new beginning brings with it anticipation and I have been counting down the days while pretending that nothing is happening. In the midst of so much I did something crazy and finally finished my first picture book. It’s been sitting in my draw for years for a combination of reasons. AContinueContinue reading “When doubt creeps in”
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Creating a Picture Book
I was discussing a children’s book with a friend that was two thousand words long and filled with incredibly long and difficult words. The friend asked if I would write a book for children and I dived into an explanation of how hard it would be to write for a young audience. Bear in mindContinueContinue reading “Creating a Picture Book”
Author questions 1-5
1. What is the most valuable piece of advice you’ve been given about writing? I actually had the most unhelpful advice and that was “no one wants poetry”. I would have two to three times the amount of poems without this advice, but I was too impressionable to realise. For fantasy, the most valuable adviceContinueContinue reading “Author questions 1-5”
Chantelle Griffin 