It sounds like this year’s Weekend on the Water is going to be a creativity recharge extravaganza. And I get to lead two of my favorite workshops! One, is making an Insight Book, discussed here (more examples on my website). The other hands-on workshop is making a picture book dummy from a manuscript work in progress. Specifically geared to writers and illustrators new to laying out picture books, this class encourages visual thinking. If picture books are a marriage between words and art, it's to a writers advantage to use illustration to tighten — as well as expand — your story. This is a class I developed for the PNWA conference this year. It was a big hit, so we’re taking it on the road
You know how there are certain things you think are going to cause you too much kerfuffle to get started? You put them off, any excuse not to get started, you'll take. That's how making book trailers is for me. But little 'Otis' must have been kicking down the stall, because I got his trailer rolling in just two days! Click on Otis (the guy in the gold coat) to watch.
