I
love being able to work in my pajamas all day. I even take my girls to
school and pick them up wearing my jammies. I don't care about the
stares. I know the other parents think I don't have a job anyway.
I
love being able to work in bed all day. I have a breakfast tray/desk
and two husbands that make it possible. (Wait...TWO HUSBANDS? Yes. First
is Mr. Lazar, Alan, who works in our home office so I have to grab
whatever space I can. The second is my stuffed husband that supports my
back.) Jammies + bed = comfort = excellent writing vibes.
Finally,
what I love most about being a picture book author is THE READERS--the
kids. I love creating new places for them to visit, new characters to
love, and new stories to expand and
inspire their imagination. My goal has always been to write some
child's most favoritest book. Bringing joy to a child's life is the
biggest and best reason to love being a picture book author.
Those are EXCELLENT reasons, particularly
Tara created PiBoIdMo (Picture Book Idea Month) as the picture book writer’s answer to NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). PiBoIdMo is held on this blog every November. In 2013, PiBoIdMo featured 1,150 participants and over 100,000 web hits.
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Tara is hilarious! May I ask Santa to make me just like her when I grow up? ;) I would love for my job to be children's book author - for more reasons than those even - but it really seems like an impossible dream right now (and I dream about being able to fly, so that's saying something!). :)
Thanks Tara! I love this line: I love creating new places for them to visit, new characters to love, and new stories to expand and inspire their imagination. As a parent reader, I love it when authors do this too.
Gotta love the jammies! And your words, "write some child's favoritest book" is my goal as well.:) Thank you, Tara, for all that you do to help us...PiBoIdMo is an event that is helping to create the classic picture books of tomorrow!
I WISH I were brave enough to do the jammies in the car thing! LOVE this post - and so VERY thankful for you!
Those are wonderful reasons for writing picture books! :)
I agree! :D
Tara is awesome, as is PiBoIdMo! :D
I agree with you Vivian! Love PiBoIdMo! :D
Well said, Stacy! I agree. :)
Genius! I'm so starting my wishlist now! :D
Expanding imagination, now that's the ticket! I love it when I read a book to my early learners at school and I watch them as they repeat a favorite line or act out a particular scene during their playful work engagement. I think to myself, Yes! That book did it's job
So far what I love about writing for kids, is my passion for it. It's so much fun to come up with ideas and flesh them out into stories. I've never been so motivated or excited about something. Of course that feeling ebbs and flows, but overall - LOVE! Can't wait to be published and see what the other side is like. Thanks again Tara for joining us! :D
YES! Too true Pamela! My daughter and I read Chicken of the Family and at the end she cheered and I thought, I would LOVE for a book of mine to inspire a kid to cheer, how amazing! :)
I love writing for children because I hope to take them places with my words... I love books and stories, so it makes sense!!
Recently I got to ride a springy purple dinosaur at a California park. I loved it! No one looked askance at me because my twin grandkids rode with me. That's a joy similar to writing for kids. Part of what I love is getting to lug home dozens of kid books from the library. Of course, I delight in reading them because I'm honing my writing skills. *wink*
And I can tell you love being a kid's writer. The Monstore is so adorable that kids do love it. I know! I read it to a class of kindergartners and they wanted to hear it again! I'm so looking forward to your future books!!!
Meg, thanks for having Tara. We love her!
I love the two husbands! I think I need to get another one for the bed, maybe I should rephrase that! The fact that you love your job is evident… you didn't even need to write an article about that!
What I love about writing children's books is seeing an idea explode that was just a spark of a pun, a play on words, a random rhyme, a funny thought, or a brief peek inside of a child's imagination...and POOF it becomes a story.
Well, after a few poofs maybe, or maybe seven or eight, and after a while, and over time, and...well.
It's a slow explosion...but fantastic, in the end.
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