Studying, reading and writing

Now that I want to write a simple story, I genre is shifting towards children's writing. So just did some basic research on what constitutes writing for children. A net search revealed that I knew very little about it. All my readings were made up of Enid Blyton's books, so her writing I know, but not much else. I was disgusted to find that not one of her books made it into the top twenty books for children. Not even Famous Five! It also may have to do with the fact that most of the lists were American in origin. But anyhoo, I looked up the list and came up with a few books which were common in all of them. I have read Narnia out of them, but I ordered the other eleven. This is so much fun. Not only will I learn how these authors wrote for children, their tones, their voices, their words, but I will have a heck of a good time doing it.

The best list I thought, was http://www.teachersfirst.com/100books.cfm

One more thing I realised, I have better talent at this type of writing, where I dont have to worry about sounding intelligent or ponderous, but just have fun writing. I am done with two chapters in just a couple of days. The chapters aren't that great, but then its a first draft and not supposed to be great.

Today's thought for the day: A completed manuscript in the hand, is worth twenty ideas in the bush. Not mine, I came across it on the internet, but I dont remember where. On the whole, though, a very apt thing to keep in mind.