For those of you who haven't read that post EACH help children (and their families) who are suffering from life-threatening illnesses.
Showing posts with label children's stories. Show all posts
Showing posts with label children's stories. Show all posts
Thursday, 16 December 2010
Reminder
it's been a fairly busy blogging week (for me) and as a result the post containing the link to ny charity page raising funds for the East Anglian Children's Hospices (EACH) has been pushed down the page.
For those of you who haven't read that post EACH help children (and their families) who are suffering from life-threatening illnesses.
For those of you who haven't read that post EACH help children (and their families) who are suffering from life-threatening illnesses.
Monday, 14 December 2009
In writing mode
After a few years out of the habit I've started writing again.
Writing time has always been limited, but with the two nippers running round the house and increased day-job demands the small amount of time available became almost non-existent. During the past 6 years I've written a few stories here and there, but they've felt forced, and the end result was stories I wasn't happy with and didn't have the time to work on them properly.
The challenges of parenthood has brought opportunities too. Over the last year I've somehow found time to write a couple of very short stories (for the young picture book market) and these went down well with the boys.
It's only recently that I decided to revisit one of them and put some effort into refining it and submitting it to a publisher, which has given me the buzz I've been missing.
Yesterday I sat down and wrote a new picture book story in 30 minutes, and after a review with my in-house Editor (handy having a teacher for a wife!) it was refined to the point of being fully satisfied with the story within 2 hours. A publisher has been identified and I'll be submitting that story in the next couple of days.
That'll be 2 submissions in a week!!! The only pain is waiting 6+ months and potentially never hearing anything.
Still, that gives me plenty of time to work on the next stories. I've already got 4 more in the pipeline and hope to complete them by the end of the year! :-)
The stories are now written for my boys; getting published will be a bonus! :-)
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Writing time has always been limited, but with the two nippers running round the house and increased day-job demands the small amount of time available became almost non-existent. During the past 6 years I've written a few stories here and there, but they've felt forced, and the end result was stories I wasn't happy with and didn't have the time to work on them properly.
The challenges of parenthood has brought opportunities too. Over the last year I've somehow found time to write a couple of very short stories (for the young picture book market) and these went down well with the boys.
It's only recently that I decided to revisit one of them and put some effort into refining it and submitting it to a publisher, which has given me the buzz I've been missing.
Yesterday I sat down and wrote a new picture book story in 30 minutes, and after a review with my in-house Editor (handy having a teacher for a wife!) it was refined to the point of being fully satisfied with the story within 2 hours. A publisher has been identified and I'll be submitting that story in the next couple of days.
That'll be 2 submissions in a week!!! The only pain is waiting 6+ months and potentially never hearing anything.
Still, that gives me plenty of time to work on the next stories. I've already got 4 more in the pipeline and hope to complete them by the end of the year! :-)
The stories are now written for my boys; getting published will be a bonus! :-)
Visit MaJaTo Scribes
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