Day 2 of NanoWriMo is going strong … I’ve already clocked over 5000 words over the two days. I’m not sure how long I’ll be able to keep the momentum up, but getting the words down is what matters to me, and already having 5000 words down across various projects is better than no words on any of them! I mean, it’s a no-brainer really, but sometimes we lose sight of that when chasing some specific goals, or at least I do!

After many months, I resumed work on Lucy and Sam ; an illustrated book for kids, written entirely in haikus. It’s fun. It’s silly. Filled with repetition, alliteration, rhyme, and onomatopoeia. One of the short books that I used to read to my youngest son: Bim Bam Boom! By: Margaret Wild and Wayne Harris (illustrator), inspired me to write Lucy and Sam . For anyone that is familiar with my poetry, I tend to favour free-verse poetry, but I’ve been known to write other styles of poetry, and this has been an absolute joy to write. I just haven’t been in the right head space to finish that first complete draft. But tonight, I resumed work on it, and I’m feeling inspired to complete the draft this month.

This is one of the pieces from the book that I did last year … it also stands nicely on it’s own. I tried to make as many of the poems as I could also stand on their own, but it wasn’t possible for every piece. I love sunflowers, so this is one of my fav pieces from the book.

I will be sharing the completed draft with my brains trust … I’ll be interested to see how it’s received by adults and kids alike. But for now, I have to finish the draft – I think it only needs a handful of poems to tie all the bits together, at least that’s the hope.