is it possible to write a rhyming story without the final product sounding samey-samey?
Aixa·Can you give some tips on meter? I’ve had a couple of people in critique groups tell me they love my story but I need to ‘clean u’p the meter and I’m having a hard time figuring out how to do that when they sound fine to me.
- Doreen·
Have you taken any courses (Renee LaTulippe?) to help teach you rhyme or are you self-taught or any classes in picture book writing? Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Can you recommend agents or publishers that are looking for rhyming PBs? Thank you.
- Melissa·
Do you write the story in rhyme first or after you have all the main points? Have you ever had a story that you changed from rhyming to no rhyme because it didn’t work?
- Melissa·
Thank you!
Roses are red
Violets are blue
What are some things
Only rhyming picture books do?- Deborah·
What do you think about books that are written with a rhythm but do not rhyme? Thank you for doing this!
can you explain more about near rhymes and slant rhymes. Thanks.
- Aixa·
About the rhyme being difficult to sell because of other languages & difficulty of translation. I have one o f my books in rhyme in English and prose in two other languages I speak and write in because I think it works better in rhyme in English and not in rhyme in the other languages. Is that ok to mention? Does it make me sound loopy?
- Doreen·
How many drafts or revisions do you typically make before you finish and submit to your agent or publisher? How do you know when it’s “ready”?
- Melissa Davis·
Do you think rhyming picture books need to have perfect stressed and unstressed syllables, or is it more about the rhythm?
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