26 Jun Think Creatively–Writing Opportunities Abound
Posted at 20:01h
in about writing
Think back to the subjects that fascinated you as a child—was it trains, adventures, monsters, fossils? They draw kids today too. Yet many new writers dismiss a marketable topic because they think all the “good ones have been taken.” But creative thinking separates the published from the unpublished.
The solution? Discover a new angle to an old idea. Target a common topic to a different age group.
When my writing partner, Shirley Raye, wrote her reader, Lewis & Clark: A Prairie Dog for the President, there were already many children’s books on the subject of Lewis and and Clark. However, there were