True Story
The wheels are in motion for the picture book. I'm meeting with my illustrator to kick things off. This morning, I made a few tweaks to the manuscript based on some feedback from some friends who shared the draft with their students. I'm pretty happy with the structure of the story, but I also know that a picture book is a marriage of visual and text. I have to make sure that these two elements work together and enhance each other, rather than cover the same ground or compete with each other. I've a few ideas about visual elements that I want to run by my illustrator, but I also want her to feel like she has the freedom to add her vision to the book as well.
Yay! I love starting a week like this. It's creative and fun.