Kidlitart Picture Book Dummy Challenge is a GO

Got great feedback concerning Step 1 of the Kidlitart Picture Book Dummy Challenge: Pick your project. Booger! Pirates! Booger Pirates! Perfect for the 5+ year-old set. We've got a great group of folks involved in the Challenge, and the twitter chat itself was both educational and highly entertaining.

The positive feedback provides some extra motivation as I head toward the 4-week long step 2: Draft the story. I've written a few stories recently for both my wife and Jake. Most are pretty good, a few... not so much, but I'll consider failed efforts to be learning experiences. I recall some advice I picked up a while back that claimed beginning authors should avoid constructing a rhyming story because their writing/rhyming skills probably aren't strong enough. Know what I say to that? Too bad - so sad. I'm TOTALLY going to rhyme this one. I haven't listened to the Beastie Boys for the past 20-something years without picking up a few tricks of the trade.

Later, sugar booger! (See?!?!?!)

*I really ought to add a clip of art work to every post. Since I don't have anything that's super recent, here's a Christmas card I designed back in December for some close friends of our family.

Pull, Sparky! PULL!!!

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