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>> Wednesday, November 25, 2009 –  ,

Ok, so let me just admit right now, straight off the bat. My attempt at NaNoWriMo was a washout. Not only do I not have the attention span to write something of that length, but my efforts were also thwarted by goings on at home, Mikey deciding to stop sleeping and then illness. I haven't written anything to do with my novel for about a week, I did get further than I expected though. It turns out that this attempt was the most words I've ever written for one project. Blasts my 10,000 school essays out of the water, so that's something.

I did not plan the novel well, I had nothing before I started writing it which really hindered my efforts. I may still finish it one day, but not today.

While writing it, however, I was blessed with pure unadulterated inspiration. The most magical idea for a children's book. I adore children's literature, I'm not talking about teen lit, which I dislike for the most part, or board books for babies because for the most part they're pretty dull. But things written for children between the ages of 4 and 11, I could just sit in the children's section of the library and read all day. 

As I don't have an older child of my own, I'm going to have to ask here. What sort of books do your older children enjoy?

>>  Posted by satakieli at 9:55 AM |   |  send email  | 

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