Early this morning I received a text from my sister who told me that you are starting to write novels in class and that you have actually heard about HildaRose. I found both those things totally amazing. So here I am taking a look at my blog and I see that it is very old, matter of fact my last post was when you were about 8 years old. I have two reasons for why I haven't posted in so long, one is that I haven't done a lot of children's books since then and the other reason is that I went back to school. Yes, even adults can go to school. The school thing really put the biggest halt on posting as I was so busy with posting to other blogs and writing papers that I didn't get a chance to post here.

The best part about school was that I didn't just write about such subjects like postmodernism and multiple intelligence theory (which of course you don't know about yet) but I also got to draw. I drew all sorts of things like people who were taking classes with me, people who were giving classes to me, images of what I thought postmodernism looked like, and ideas I had for presentations or class projects. I even drew a story for a writing class. It was about a large gorilla who visited a class for craft day. (I will show you some of that in another post.) Sounds silly, yes?

Sometimes stories only make it to your scribbler or computer—the gorilla only made it that far—but that isn't a bad thing. I learned a lot from my gorilla story about how to create stories and how to tell stories. As I drew rough sketches (which is like rough drafts of a story) I discovered a place to think. With each sketch I would ask myself questions like "what is this story about?", "who is in the story?", "what do they look like?", "what if the gorilla does this, what will happen then?", "what would it feel like if it happened to me?" and a million other questions. Each answer changed my story and it was exciting to see how the story changed as I answered each question. This happens if you are telling a story using words or pictures. But to get there you have to begin, so begin. My advice is to write lots and keep writing so that you can find your final story.

I'm going to leave you now but I promise to be back in a day or two. I'll see what I have in pictures to post. If you wish to ask questions feel free to post them and I promise to answer you. Have fun with your stories.