Week 7

 

I realize that the project is all on my shoulders. If I do it or not, how well it turns out if I do indeed finish, or how far I get. So I want to start planning. We have about six weeks of this project left. So for the next two weeks or so, I will plan what will go on each page. I want it to be about 20 pages because that's how long Mr. Lee says children's books are usually so... I feel a little bit overwhelmed because that's a lot of pages compared to how many pages I have planned already. (Six, to be exact) I wonder at what point I will start concluding the story. Or how I'll even end it. To be honest, my goal right now (my realistic goal) is to have the outline finished and have the exact words that would be on each page.

Week 6

This week, we were instructed to start planning out what we were going to do every week about our projects. I don't even really know where to start planning, I feel so behind. I still have to finish planning out what's going to be on each page. I remember how when I first started researching about how to write a children's book, the websites always said that the planning process should indeed be long and it should be thought out very carefully but I feel like I've wasted a lot of time thinking and now it's time to act. I don't want to go up there and not have anything to talk about besides the planning. I want to at least be able to show how the entire story would have turned out if I had finished. (Because I know that I'm not going to finish) But hopefully I don't waste anymore time and get to working.

Week 5

This week, I decided that I didn't want to make the character go ask his mom if he could watch tv again because it really does not make any sense/doesn't support the moral of the story that I am trying to show. So the idea is that he'll be so distracted with his adventures that he won't even think about watching tv. He'll just keep saving the day in each room. Then maybe at the end of the story, he can go into the kitchen (or a room where his mom is) and save the day in there, then she can tell him that he can finally go watch tv or something. He'll deny and say that he has other things to do. And he'll run off and continue with what he was doing. I like the idea of that better than him constantly going to ask his mom for the tv.

Week 4

 

This week, I really didn't make any progress. I have been still trying to figure out other scenarios and scenes where I can make the main character go. I also have to figure out little details like his race and his name even. I have been struggling because after he finished his first adventure, he goes and he asks his mom if he could go watch tv since he already distracted himself for a while. But she says no. The issue I'm having is that I don't know if I want him to continuously ask his mom after all the adventures because then the moral of the story wouldn't make much sense. Since the moral of the story is that you can have fun as long as you have your imagination, I don't want him to go ask after each adventure because then that means he wasn't content with the adventure and still wants to watch tv.