I’m starting to blog with www.chrisianchildrensauthors.com
I will do a post every other month on the third Thursday. So this Thursday was my first post!
So honored to be included in their blog. Click on the link below to see what I posted about verse journaling.
I am happy to announce that I am a proud Storystorm participant. This means I am committed to brainstorming at least one picture book idea per day during the month of January. (I can do more than one if I want) 🙂 This is put on by Tara Lazar. She gathers many “experts” in the field of picture book writing and offers advice and give-aways all month long. I highly recommend this experience.
A big shout out to one of the students in my S.M.A.R.T period —you know who you are— 🙂 who helped me attach my banner to this Blogger template. I have been wanting to get my banner the same over all of my social media outlets. Twitter, Blog, Facebook, and Instagram. But I lacked the know-how.
Each Monday I have a group of students that gathers for what is called S.M.A.R.T period. Essentially a study hall/ or homeroom where we may take care of essential announcements, standardized testing, and the like. One day, as we were talking about school scheduling, he showed the class something that he had created for the school catalog. A brilliant web design. To put it mildly, this student has a bright future in anything/everying tech related!
So over the next few weeks I worked up my courage to ask him for help. He not only knew what to do, he had the issue solved it within a matter of minutes.
I am forever grateful!
Students. Technology is their thing.
What I learned: Don’t be afraid to ask them for help!
I loved participating in Story Storm.
It was very motivating to receive tips in my inbox each day from published authors and illustrators. They had some unique suggestions on where to get ideas for stories!
Here’s what happened to me this month:
I brainstormed 40 ideas. (I was hoping for more, but it was great to have a push to get some new ideas cooking.)
I began developing two of the ideas because I am so excited about them.
I also joined a critique group through SCBWI and went to my first meeting. It was fun! I look forward to receiving feedback about some of my writing pieces.
Finally, I even edited and worked on a few proposals for manuscripts that have been on the back burner for awhile.
Thanks STORY STORM, for helping me be productive and push forward with my writing!
Each day of January I am pledging to brainstorm ideas for new stories. All participants of STORY STORM are on the honor system (meaning we don’t actually share our ideas publically), but each day on Tara Lazar’s blog, she hosts an “expert” who gives exercises and techniques for authors to use. The first few days of January were a little rough for me, but I have now officially started and am ready to CREATE! Maybe one day I’ll be able to say…”that book you hold in your hand was an idea that came from STORY STORM 2018!”
Thanks, @Tara Lazar for this inspirational experience.
You can also follow the Twitter hashtag #STORYSTORM to see what we are up to.
