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Aug. 3rd, 2005 01:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nnyI've never considered writing children's stories.
It's strange. It always seemed... like it wouldn't be wanting enough, like it would be somehow failing, to want to do that. I don't know why that is.
It's the stories that I love telling. Not the style and the ponderings and post-modernism and intellectual literariness. That's not me. I love stories, and making people want to know what comes next. I love things that don't have to mean something, and don't have to be a metaphor, but can merely be there because they make someone smile.
I don't know if I can write for children. They are remarkably good at seeing through bullshit.
I don't know if I can allow myself this ambition. I think it will be more rewarding for me, because I think it's something I can do without constantly torturing myself that I'm not nearly good enough. But maybe I'm only nearly good enough.
I guess the only way I can know that is to try, really.
It's strange. It always seemed... like it wouldn't be wanting enough, like it would be somehow failing, to want to do that. I don't know why that is.
It's the stories that I love telling. Not the style and the ponderings and post-modernism and intellectual literariness. That's not me. I love stories, and making people want to know what comes next. I love things that don't have to mean something, and don't have to be a metaphor, but can merely be there because they make someone smile.
I don't know if I can write for children. They are remarkably good at seeing through bullshit.
I don't know if I can allow myself this ambition. I think it will be more rewarding for me, because I think it's something I can do without constantly torturing myself that I'm not nearly good enough. But maybe I'm only nearly good enough.
I guess the only way I can know that is to try, really.
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Date: 2005-08-02 06:09 pm (UTC)That makes a lot of sense, to me.
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Date: 2005-08-02 06:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-08-03 07:08 am (UTC)I work for a children's book publishing company and what we always tell people is join a writer's group. Here in the US we have the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. I'm not sure if this is an international organization or not, but you should look into it. They are great for making contacts, critiquing and guidance on how to write for children.