May’s Challenges (by sarah)
I am going to be taking part in NaPiBoWriWee (National Picture Book Writing Week) again this year - I will be attempting to write a picture book a day for seven days - I am focusing on more Little Books of Poetry as these seem so popular with Jean at least.
I will hopefully have 7 more Little Books by the end of May 🙂 This does however mean 70! poems which I'm not entirely sure is doable - ok they are formulaic and tending towards the rhyming end of things which I find easy but still :/
If I somehow get this done then I will probably expand the challenge to be an hour a day working on children's books. I now have several Little Books of Poetry which I really should make into proper books:
- The Little Book of Spoogy Poetry (still needs some illustration work and more poems)
- The Little Book of Festive Poetry (needs more illustrations including front cover)
- The Little Book of Sparkly Poetry (Poems and illustrations need work)
- The Little Book of New Baby Poetry (I want to draw 4 more page borders for this and rearrange the text into it so the pages can be double sided and readable in A6 format but it is almost there!)
- The Little Book of Easter Poetry (Got most of the illustrations done for this one - want to tweak some of the poems too)
I'll be doing write ups on all of this on Orange Monster
So what is my second challenge for the month?
I think I'm going for Flash Fiction writing - I've fallen behind with this so want to aim for a story a day 🙂 They will be appearing on Magenta Monster.