One of my favourite Neil Gaiman quotes: “Just write. Many writers have a vague hope that elves will come in the night and finish any stories for you for you. They won’t.” You can see the original video in which he offers advice for young writers:
Anyone who thinks that picture books are easy to write because they’re short needs to read this advice from my Simon & Schuster editor, Justin Chanda.
Thanks to my friend Therese Walsh for the great caption! You can find out more about Therese at ThereseWalsh.com and on Twitter at @ThereseWalsh.
“Picture books create readers from ground up. Don’t rush children out of them.” – Jarrett J. Krosoczka.
I love what Stephen King said about not waiting for one’s Muse to show up. “Don’t wait for the muse. As I’ve said, he’s a hardheaded guy who’s not susceptible to a lot of creative fluttering. This isn’t the Ouija board or the spirit-world we’re talking about here, but just . . .
For those interested, the Font Nerd Table comic above is now available as a greeting card in my card shop. I do admit that I over-used Comic Sans and Papyrus when they first came out. Fontfaces are so much like fashion, aren’t they? You have the basic fontfaces which never seem . . .
After posting the found object doodle below on FB, a flurry of comments (turns out I’m not the only one who has a strong emotional reaction to dog-eared pages in books :-)) prompted me to post this anonymous 1-question survey: How do you feel about dog-earing pages? After you answer my . . .
Have a great week, everyone!