My book

So one of the projects in my 'art for elementary teachers' class was a bookmaking project. First we had to write a short little story, then we did a story board to figure out our layout, and then we had to create our book using different types of media (watercolor, tempra paint, collage, drawing, etc). We got our books back today, I got 100%. My teacher liked it so much she asked if she could keep it. I told her no, I worked really hard on it, and I really like it! So instead she said when I get it published I have to send her a copy. :)
So here it is:

Starla & Veruca

The Fairy and The Pixie

Written & Illustrated

by Tonya Little

Starla Harmony is a fairy. She has little colorful wings like a butterfly.

She lives in Sweetbriar Hollow. Lots of other creatures live there too.

Starla's best friend is a pixie named Veruca.

Veruca has long, thin wings like a dragonfly. She also lives in Sweetbriar Hollow.

Starla & Veruca like to sit in the lilygrass next to calliope pond.

They eat roasted sugarbean nuts and make up stories about the old yetti that lives up in archaic mountain.

Sometimes the fairy and the pixie help the willowby bears tend their gardens

Sometimes they go listen to the gnomes tell stories in the forest.

But whatever they do, they do it together, because everything is more fun with your best friend.

The End

Starla likes it alot. :)

Novemeber is National Novel Writing Month. And there is this organization that does this annual writing marathon for it each year. You have to write 50,000 words starting Nov 1st and ending on Nov 30th. I have always wanted to write a book, but thought I would just have to wait until the kids were all grown up and I 'had the time'. This organization is trying to show people that anyone has the time, that writing a novel doesn't have to take a year or more. Their marathon is about quanity, not quality. You are actually not supposed to go back and read anything you have already written, or edit in any way shape or form until after Nov. They just want you to write and write and get the story out there, and then you can take the time to edit, revise, and polish it up. So, here we are, a week left of the month. I am about at 40,000 words! I am bound and determined to do it! You don't 'win' anything. You are considered a winner if you finish. And a bookbinding company has offered everyone who 'wins' a hardbound copy of their story when they are done with it, which is kind of neat. I think I will make it, so I'm pretty excited. Then I will give myself the next semester to polish it up and get it ready to submit for publishing. Maybe I can get a book published. My story actually has all the same characters from the above story, in the same place. But it is for a little older audience. But still young adult. I'd like to write a series. Like the next Harry Potter. :) Wish me luck.