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Aug 26, 2022·edited Aug 26, 2022Liked by Adam Ming

Hello Adam,

Boy you're journey is heavily influencing and inspiring my own..(though im still starting NOW)

Some pointers:

You're already a good author because your newsletters are very well crafted and not everyone can do that.

I'd do the following to better it(i'm already working through this list)

*Read Writing Picture Books by Ann Whitford Paul

*Read On Writing by Stephen King

*Read Pixar Storytelling: Rules for Effective Storytelling Based on Pixar’s Greatest Films

*Follow Anoosha Syed's Patreon where she chronicles her journey and process for picture books.She has an author debut out too.

*Lastly read blogs/books by author/illustrators by Beatrice Blue,Anoosha Syed ,Rebecca Green etc

*https://margretelamond.com/blog

Hope these help and Congratulations man!!

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Happy First Anniversary! Congratulations!

If I was interested in an author-illustrator path, I would join or gather a writer's group for author-illustrators, focused on the author part. My guess is that others in this special realm will be great support and your collective wisdom will be incredible. A general writers group would be ok, but I think you'd get to where you want to be faster with others navigating this same terrain. Good luck!

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Aug 26, 2022·edited Aug 26, 2022Liked by Adam Ming

Happy 1 year! Author-illustrator combo is the dream right? I think everyone's path is going to be different, but for me the results finally came after I took a few children's writing classes through The Writing Barn. Having to show up with results each week really pushed me. Granted the ideas weren't fabulous, but honestly honestly honestly I am finally working on getting a book ready for submission because of what I wrote there. I like the class because they showed great examples, we had fabulous exercises and written/speaking critiques from other classmates. It was a great combo of things that worked just right for me.

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Happy anniversary, my friend!

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Congratulations on your one year milestone-- wishing you success in the coming years!

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Happy birthday to Adam’s Notes! So happy you choose to write and share with us 🎉

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Happy anniversary Adam!! thanks for sharing your journey : )

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