Week 3

This week, we are missing one of our group members. It's a little irritating because we can't really make any solid decisions without him here to tell us what he thinks. So we're just researching books and I looked up a website and took notes on how to start writing a book. It all seemed pretty obvious but now at least I know we're going in the right direction. The website talked a lot about putting out all the ideas possible, even the bad ones. It said to write down all the ideas of possible plots that come to mind. I don't know what better way to explain what kind of book I'd want to write than saying I want it to be like the Junie B. Jones series or the Captain Underpants series. Those types of books are so enjoyable to read that I'm thinking they would be even more fun to write.

Week 2

This past week was really crucial for our 20% Project because we completely changed our minds about what exactly we wanted to do. We thought we wanted to write a children's book because it seemed simple to think of a theme and then base the story on that. But once we started really looking at the decisions that we once thought were our best, we realized that we didn't like our idea. Nothing flowed together, everything just seemed really random and mediocre. I then realized that this "sudden realization" that I didn't like the theme wasn't so sudden, I hadn't liked the theme from day 1. We changed our minds to make a book for children a little bit older, and to make a book that would be longer and wouldn't require so many illustrations. From the beginning of the project, I had been saying I wanted to write a longer book. And two weeks in, my group finally decided to listen to me.