Post-PiBo Day 3: Stacy McAnulty Engineers Her Story (plus prizes!)

by Stacy McAnulty When I tell people that I have a mechanical engineering degree and that I’m also a picture book author, they look at me like I’m trying to mate two different species. Like I’m par…

Great way to organize things! Love the spreadsheet idea. 

Break dancing right into a breather from my MS

As the previous posts indicate I took a break from writing today. I took a recommendation to fiddle around with drawing out scenes from the MS. I have been mentally visualizing this story everyday since around June. When I say visualize, I mean like I see the character moving from page to page scene to scene.  Often when I’m in a stump on where to take the story next, I’ll put on headphones and listen to some Mozart and watch a chubby elephant walk around Paris.

My MS is on its third total redo since August. In the wee hours of Saturday morning, I eekked to the finish of this third makeover. It felt fantastic. Now, I’m going to let it simmer before I continue the editing process.

I’ve got a need for a killer line in one paragraph during the ah-ha moment.  Allowing myself to break out the oil pastels was a wonderful way to work towards that line. 

Can’t wait to make the new dummy book and practice my drawing a bit more :) 

Now, I’ll be spending my night watching movies and drinking wine. Ohhh the life of an author. 

RISD Entrepreneur Mindshare: Jarrett J. Krosoczka

Jarrett J. Krosoczka shares some valuable information and lessons learned. This will be re-watched in the future :)  

Simple Tricks to Unstick Your Story: The Domino Effect

by Susan Dennard — I tend to have a lot of false starts or write-my-characters-into-inescapable-corners when I’m drafting. It doesn’t matter how meticulously I outline or how freely I try to fly …

Great advice this mull over. Re: my picture MS.  Going to get unstuck later.