Comments on: Penning Picture Books, #2 – A Question of Style http://www.emmawaltonhamilton.com/penning-picture-books-2-a-question-of-style/ Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 05 May 2010 21:45:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Emma http://www.emmawaltonhamilton.com/penning-picture-books-2-a-question-of-style/comment-page-1/#comment-50 Emma Sun, 10 Jan 2010 23:33:17 +0000 http://www.emmawaltonhamilton.com/?p=695#comment-50 Mary - If it rhymes, meter matters. It's a HUGE part of what makes a verse picture book both saleable and marketable. Meter is just as important as rhyme in verse. You should definitely work on unifying it. Hope that's helpful! Mary – If it rhymes, meter matters. It’s a HUGE part of what makes a verse picture book both saleable and marketable. Meter is just as important as rhyme in verse. You should definitely work on unifying it. Hope that’s helpful!

]]> By: Mary http://www.emmawaltonhamilton.com/penning-picture-books-2-a-question-of-style/comment-page-1/#comment-49 Mary Sun, 10 Jan 2010 18:37:43 +0000 http://www.emmawaltonhamilton.com/?p=695#comment-49 I'm working on a children's book. Although it rhyme's it does not have perfect meter. It is not a poem, just a cute tale. Does meter still matter?? Mary I’m working on a children’s book. Although it rhyme’s it does not have perfect meter. It is not a poem, just a cute tale. Does meter still matter??
Mary

]]> By: Heilan Yvette Grimes http://www.emmawaltonhamilton.com/penning-picture-books-2-a-question-of-style/comment-page-1/#comment-14 Heilan Yvette Grimes Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:52:03 +0000 http://www.emmawaltonhamilton.com/?p=695#comment-14 This is all excellent advice. I'm learning a lot from your blog. I remember in acting you always said to pick the choice that ups the ante. Seems to be good advice for writing, too. I've edited a lot of books and have always referred to people with troubled tense as time-travelers. One moment their character is here, the next they're back there. Sometimes in the same sentence. I hope in future blogs you'll be specific about things like who-whom, who-that, that-which, their-they're, its-it's, etc. I know, seemingly simple stuff, but I see mistakes with those terms all the time. Can't wait for #3. -Y This is all excellent advice. I’m learning a lot from your blog.

I remember in acting you always said to pick the choice that ups the ante. Seems to be good advice for writing, too.

I’ve edited a lot of books and have always referred to people with troubled tense as time-travelers. One moment their character is here, the next they’re back there. Sometimes in the same sentence.

I hope in future blogs you’ll be specific about things like who-whom, who-that, that-which, their-they’re, its-it’s, etc. I know, seemingly simple stuff, but I see mistakes with those terms all the time.

Can’t wait for #3.

-Y

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