Whether listening to family members or friends, the TV, a song or seeing a pet, an insect or other forms of our environment and nature... my mind constantly comes up with prospective ideas for my next Children's Book adventure. The only thing that blocks those wonderful ideas is content and time. I also have to complete one or two projects I am already working on first. I can get a bit scattered on thoughts and information and a writer's favorite, writer's block. Ugh!
Sticking with a genre seems to keep me centered, although it is very easy for this mind to wonder every so often. As an adult, one wants to do fun adult ventures, but they turn right back to the children in wanting to teach them good morals, how to have good clean fun and to help out our young adult parents with those objectives. I feel grandparents can be a big part of this process in teaching little ones from a very early age. Parents, foster parents, relatives of any age and family friends, besides school and library events, can make a big difference in the rearing up of a child and their ability to read and comprehend. And that goes for some special needs children also.
This is my way of helping out and hopefully making a positive difference. Ideas, keep on flooding this grandmother's brain.
