A Podcast and a Book

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A began listening to the Book Smitten podcast back in July, or so. I’d heard they were going to be reading and writing for Ann Whitford Paul’s Writing Picture Books as a group, and listeners would do the assignments in the book along with them, with one caveat: You’d be doing it with a totally new picture book manuscript that you’d write as one of the assignments early on in the book!

Yeah, I was as excited as you are! It was like a class I’d be taking, with class happening about once per week, then you’d have a week to do the new assignments!

I’d already read the book a few years before, but I didn’t do any of the writing assignments- I know, bad student, bad teacher.

Well, life happened while listening, and I fell a few episodes/chapters behind…okay, I fell five episodes behind, but I’m slowly catching up, I guess.

My manuscript? I like it, a lot. BUT, I really like tweaking it, or trying new changes to it based on the writing assignments. And, I really like listening to Book Smitten discuss their changes, and what worked, and didn’t work for them. It’s almost like a class discussion, which, really, is another post for another day.

If you’re a writer, I highly recommend Writing Picture Books by Ann Whitford Paul, and listening to the Book Smitten podcast while doing it! And, if you need the book, please buy at your local book store! Thanks :)