Recently, I completed and self published a children's book about imagination, creativity, and adjectives. The book was concepted and written by my wife and I as the first of several stories. The project started on a whim and quickly became a very fun and uniquely creative outlet.
We wrote the first draft of the book in less than a week. While we waited for notes from our editor, I began the process of illustrating. Over the next three weeks we finalized the illustrations, edited the text to its final draft and went through the process of publishing the book.
All illustrations in the book were drawn by hand first. I then digitized and colored them all, adding rough paint strokes to bring energy to the pages.
Mateo was a writer.
Mateo was a good writer; a smart, witty, whimsical, and well-read writer.
He was writing a very interesting story. He had been writing this story for several days and was working hard to get every word just right. His keyboard had been heard clacking for hours on end. Everyday Mateo sat down to write his story with excellence.
But today something was wrong. Mateo sat down to write, as he usually did, but he could not think of the right words to write. Unable to write right words; writing wrong words only. He sat at his keyboard, thinking and thinking, but the right words just would not come. Yesterday he could think of words, and the day before he had too many words. But today, he had no words. It seemed as though he had used all his words and had none left to use.
We'd originally wanted to write a book that was full of adjectives. The vehicle we used for that purpose was creativity. The final product is an ode to imagination and seeing the world through the eyes of beauty.
People always say, "Write what you know."
