I keep a guitar around while writing and will improvise music. I do this for several reasons, such as that it's fun, and sometimes it helps me with the meter.
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When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all.Jack Prelutsky
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Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.
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I invented animals and birds - I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor.
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There's not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that the bigger books take a lot longer to do.
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I would go to sketch groups and draw. I really enjoyed the subject matter, but I wasn't good at it.
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