When most people go ice skating they tend to cling to the edge huddled in their coats. Almost no-one expects to step onto the ice and skate to the centre of the rink, let alone perfecting a spectacular six spin pirouette. You’d expect that to take years of practice and coaching.
So why are you so hard on yourself with writing? Why do so many writers feel like failures when they don’t pop out a best seller first go? They look at rewrites as a big black cross against their work, when really that rewrite is just a stepping stone to producing a better story.
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The Pros of Prose
We’ve all enjoyed sharing a rhyming picture book at various stages of our lives, from Julia Donaldson’s iconic The Gruffalo with beautiful scansion to Catherine Emmett’s waltzing King of The Swamp. But not every publisher wants rhyming picture books. Yes, it’s true. There are many pros to writing picture books in prose. Here’s why.
Kate Walker Children's Author 