Hydra Gallamet
These past few weeks I have been working on something new. My job at the Animal Rights Organization inspired me to delve into something I have always been curious about. Writing for children. In fact I had this desire over a year ago when I saw Finding Neverland for the first time. And my interactions with New Zenith and meeting Plosk also brought forward this wish. But I never felt I had a solid direction to go with it. The new position gave me a compass and I have now been working on two children's stories. It's very exciting.
I completed my first story this past weekend and wrote a first draft of another. I wrote one with an animal rights theme in mind, thinking it may be useful for the education division of my new organization. But then on Monday I started a new story just for fun. It is much better than the first one, although I believe the first one is good and worth keeping. But it isn't as playful and it isn't as imaginative. This is a direction I'm going to continue to play with. Plosk has also stated he wants to work with children's theatre and that is where he wants to end up. He then said, it's perhaps because he and I are such big children that we feel this desire. I am still an adult fiction writer, and poetry is as always important to me. But I think children's books would be more of a hobby while I work on more adult pieces. It's satisfying and something I'm good at.
Now, here is a random picture of the cutest bunny ever.
posted by Ali @ 12:21 PM
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I too have the notion that I haven't entirely grown up and figure that's why I love children's theatre & books and would love to end up working in either of these artistic veins. Plosk might want to check this out as a way to start getting into children's theatre: http://www.52project.org/. And lots of theatres (well, 2 that I know of, but I feel pretty sure there are more) do community outreach programs - sending actors/writers into schools to teach them about playwriting. At a theatre I worked at in Florida they packed a group of acting interns into a van, sent them to schools around the Southeast United to perform a show that the actors themselves developed which encouraged playwriting and taught some basics. Anyway, I'm excited for your new project. For my part, I think writing for children a serious undertaking (even when the outcome is fun and silly) so it only an enhances a writer's identity. In fact, there's a growing trend in the industry right now - adult fiction writers putting out young adult novels and children's books...but I can't think of any examples besides Carl Hiassen.
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