The Accidental Author
May. 18th, 2012 03:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
osprey_archerSo you may remember that I started writing a story for one of my first graders, about the adventures of Princess Rose.
And then I ran out of passages to read with my third grader, so I decided to adapt Princess Rose for her reading level. After all, what's not to love? Trolls! Dragons! Seven-league boots! Princess-eating snakes!
(“You’ll be the first princess I’ve eaten," said the snake. "I hope princesses taste as ssscrumptious as knights.”
“Oh no,” Princess Rose told him. “Princesses taste terrible. We taste like green beans and peas and other awful things.”)
And...it's morphed into a children's chapter book, the very slender kind intended for second and third graders. About 5,500 words now; I'm thinking it will be around 6,000 when I'm done.
I've written a book! A children's book! My ten-year-old self would be so proud.
And then I ran out of passages to read with my third grader, so I decided to adapt Princess Rose for her reading level. After all, what's not to love? Trolls! Dragons! Seven-league boots! Princess-eating snakes!
(“You’ll be the first princess I’ve eaten," said the snake. "I hope princesses taste as ssscrumptious as knights.”
“Oh no,” Princess Rose told him. “Princesses taste terrible. We taste like green beans and peas and other awful things.”)
And...it's morphed into a children's chapter book, the very slender kind intended for second and third graders. About 5,500 words now; I'm thinking it will be around 6,000 when I'm done.
I've written a book! A children's book! My ten-year-old self would be so proud.
