![]() I’m not sure where I’d be without Storystorm! They’re more like pythonic problems!Įvery day, I read the guest post and partook in the Storystorm exercise you never know what new idea might happen, from a jazzy sentence or title, to a brand new story idea! By the end of January, not only did I have a bunch of new ideas, I also knew exactly where I was taking Little Medusa’s tale. LM: Nope! Stony stares and slithering hair are not my kind of tradition. Nor do you like having Addie slither through your hair. I don’t want to turn things to stone with a stare. LM: My great-times-eight Granny Medusa is not funny. How would I make one of the most villainous figures in Greek mythology kid-friendly? I turned to Storystorm for tips on humorous writing and how to find the funny. But I wasn’t sure how to morph this meatball of an idea into a grand bolognaise sauce. LM: Oh, that’s me!! Just like you didn’t want shrimp, I didn’t want snakes in my hair!Įxactly. ![]() Well in that moment, several events converged at once and I knew I had a tale about a Gorgon girl challenged by eons of family tradition. LM: Mama said I’d get used to traditional Gorgon hair but I don’t like Addie on my head. No, but she did scare me! This mini-Medusa was actually my daughter with a headful of tangled, knotted, serpentine-looking hair. LM: She didn’t turn you to stone, did she? Whilst sorting socks and sweaters, a real live mini-Medusa skipped into the laundry room. With editors to please and taste buds to appease, I turned to mundane housework to alleviate the stress. Yes, tempura shrimp is delish, but having it at every special occasion “because it’s a tradition!” was constricting my appetite. I desperately wanted to vamp up the menu. Instead of drafting stories, I was juggling magazine deadlines and planning the annual holiday party menu. Definitely something to look forward to because the holidays were knocking impatiently at the door. ![]() Around the same time, I discovered PiBoIdMo (Picture Book Idea Month) was reformatting to Storystorm, and that come January, there’d be a whole new set of inspirational writing tips and tricks. I drafted a story about pet snakes, but it needed more sparkle and less fang. LM: Of course! Snake are sssssuper sssmellers! Did you know that snakes smell with their tongues? …I wanted people to know that snakes are really fascinating. After attending a reptile show with my daughter at our local library, I… Not to everyone! But that’s the thing, Li’l Medusa. Little Medusa: Beautiful! Amazing! And very cuddly.Īctually, I was about to say that snakes rattle lots of people. A few Novembers ago, I was inspired to write a picture book story about snakes.
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