Hello ReviMoers!
RhyPiBoMo is in full swing and together, we have focused
on the poetry connection to writing
rhyming picture books and how rhythm and rhyme enhances our writing. Now, it’s
time to focus on the picture book
part and revision is the key, especially in a rhyming book.
Meg has done a great job of sharing all the
important components of revision. I personally think that writing a rhyming
picture book is one of the most difficult things a writer will ever do, if done
well! So, it makes sense that revising a RPB will be more intense, more
difficult and more rewarding when complete!
You have all your usual necessities, as with
revising any picture book...now add in some new rhyming antics and that check
list of what to do is growing by the minute.
I created a friendly, colorful, Post-it graphic to
help you get started. I thought it might look less daunting this way. There are
lots and lots of revision check lists out there but I never seem to follow the
list in order. My graphic is quite a
bit less rigid, but it should still get you where you want to go!
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| Click to enlarge, print and/or save! |
Start at the top left of the board, and work your
way down and over to the bottom right…
The Orange Post-its are
significant because these involve rhyme and poetry revisions.
You must do everything you always do when revising!
No exceptions!
But now, you get to add in the orange Post-its too...Those
orange Post-its will begin to transform your manuscript into glorious shades of
golden, lyrical voice, hues of yellow, rhythmic meter and brilliant, burgundy
rhyme. When it begins to glow perfection like a late, fall sunset then, and
only then, may you sit a while and reflect proudly at all you have created.
Then have it critiqued again! Ha! Ha! Thought you were
done didn’t you!
~Angie
Thank you Angie! Happy revising everyone!
