aaaallll gone…

February 28, 2011

February’s gone, and I am…actually, I’m only about 3500 words behind, which is a hell of a lot better than I expected to be given how much I was sick this month. I’ve gotten copy edits and a short story done, and, er. 25,000 words on the novel, which is actually quite a decent showing. YTD wordcount is in the region of 70K.

Also, I wrote two books this evening.

See, I’ve been looking at Young Indiana’s baby books, and a lot of them are just awful. Poorly rhymed or no rhythm, ideas I dislike (winning is everything, for example), etc, etc, etc. So I’d sort of started noodling down some rhymes of my own to counteract the bad books, and then I got carried away and wrote a counting kisses book and an animal alphabet book, both of which were really quite fun to do. The animal alphabet needs a bit of editing (and is perhaps aimed at Very Clever Children, since it features velociraptors, but c’mon, don’t all 5 year old boys, at least, know what velociraptors are?) but heck, I’d read it to my kid. :)

The obvious thing here is to do this for about a week and then look for a publisher for my broad portfolio of children’s books. :)

3 thoughts on “aaaallll gone…”

  1. Could one of your hypothetical children’s books be about Christmas, because I was stuck reading “A Night Before Christmas” several times over to [different] groups of children because the other Christmas books deemed “suitable” for young children sucked eggs[nog]

  2. I bet one of my hypothetical children’s books could be about Christmas, although, wow, what’s considered “suitable”, I wonder?

  3. Well, apparently, an “appropriate” book is one about a boy from Victorian times who got greedy and thought he would get more gifts if he hung one of his mother’s stockings on the mantle instead of his own. This confused Santa, so he gave the boy dolls and other “girly” presents for Christmas instead of “boy” toys. The moral of the story: read the story yourself before you get stuck flat-footed explaining the story to a bunch of 4-6 year olds because it was too complicated (and sucky) for them to understand. Also… don’t get greedy.

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