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I've finished a draft of a 10-page children's story, tentatively titled "The Rainbow Chasers" that I'd like to use when I start approaching agents. It's a fine draft, I think, except that I'm waiting for just the right way to wrap it up. A final line or two. I'd... really like to figure that out, like, soon. :)
I showed it to my husband. He didn't hate it, but he didn't have much to contribute. This is the problem with showing fiction and/or poetry to an engineer.
He did bring up the whole "is this age appropriate" question, which is something I still grapple with. I know I need to become more familiar with how the industry classifies children's literature. I mean I have a general idea, but when you pick up a book at random in the children's section the lines aren't so clear cut. And it seems to me that categories of literature shouldn't be clear cut, anyway. In the end, I try to write the story that I have in me to write, in the style that it asks to be written, without worrying over-much about whether the vocabulary fits in the box.
Besides, I'm of the opinion that vocabulary is something you learn by, you know. Reading.
Which reminds me - have any of you seen the children's book co-written by Jamie Lee Curtis, Big Words for Little People?It's an adorable little book that embraces just what I'm talking about. Just because kids are young doesn't mean we should write down to them.
I showed it to my husband. He didn't hate it, but he didn't have much to contribute. This is the problem with showing fiction and/or poetry to an engineer.
He did bring up the whole "is this age appropriate" question, which is something I still grapple with. I know I need to become more familiar with how the industry classifies children's literature. I mean I have a general idea, but when you pick up a book at random in the children's section the lines aren't so clear cut. And it seems to me that categories of literature shouldn't be clear cut, anyway. In the end, I try to write the story that I have in me to write, in the style that it asks to be written, without worrying over-much about whether the vocabulary fits in the box.
Besides, I'm of the opinion that vocabulary is something you learn by, you know. Reading.
Which reminds me - have any of you seen the children's book co-written by Jamie Lee Curtis, Big Words for Little People?It's an adorable little book that embraces just what I'm talking about. Just because kids are young doesn't mean we should write down to them.