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Tip of the Week: Always read all of the directions, and then follow them.
Now before all of the people who entered the contest worry that I'm talking about them, calm down. I'm not. In fact every single person who entered my contest had a perfect entry -- just the way I wanted it.
However, I thought of this tip because I've been reading submissions for The Bloom Award over at Blooming Tree Press, and there people have not always been as successful. Remember when it says double-spaced, it means double-spaced. Not 1 1/2 spaced, not triple spaced. Double spaced.
In the classes I teach about writing for the educational market, I always harp on following directions.
Well, isn't this just embarrassing. I had an assignment to write four more Science Song books for Picture Window Books. "Same deal as the first." And when my series guidelines came, I glossed right over the form information, since I had already written four.
I blithely wrote and turned in my four new songs. And now I have to redo one entirely, to a new song.
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Why? Because I didn't read the directions. I wrote my science song to the tune of a folk song that had been
removed from the list (because apparently not enough teachers were familiar with the tune of the song). Sigh. This is a whole lot of extra work, just because I didn't pay attention.
Lesson learned...again.
P.S. IRA is fun and big and overwhelming! I'll be going again today and tomorrow and will post a recap next week.
