![]() Then I went back-and-forth between writing and sketching and gradually shaped the wording for each page. Mostly I tinkered with big story concepts in my workbook, and typing on my computer, until I had the major story arc resolved. The Curious Garden took such a long time to develop that there was never a page of starts. ![]() PB: The page of starts on my website was created specifically to illustrate my point that from many bad ideas came one good idea for the opening of Flight of the Dodo. How did you develop that important opening paragraph? ![]() We're wondering if you have a similar set of openings for The Curious Garden, and if so, what they were. We're wondering if those are from real first drafts, or if they are created to make your point that picture books are tough to write (we're not expecting you to reveal any trade secrets!). StorySleuths: On your website, you posted an intriguing page of starts, all but one crossed out, for Flight of the Dodo. So we StorySleuths decided to ask him our own questions, focused on the craft of writing, which he graciously answered. ![]() Peter Brown's inspiring keynote at the Western Washington SCBWI Regional Conference last weekend was titled "Questions (Not Answers)." The questions he focused on were:īy sharing his answers to these questions, he modeled for the 350 authors and illustrators who attended some of the ways he focuses on, and reaches, his goals. ![]()
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