Karen GoatKeeper's Blog - Posts Tagged "alphabet-book-about-goats"
Playing With Words
English lends itself to playing with words. It has thousands of words. It has homonyms and synonyms. Alliteration and tongue twisters aren't hard to do.
Standing around watching my goats eat over the winter is boring. Most of them are dry and only there to eat. It's cold. The mind wanders.
Somehow I came up with Dandy wether debating whether or not that wether wanted to go out in rainy weather. What about another letter? Say A. Alpines align alertly. Why? The genesis of an alliterative story.
One by one I've managed to find goat topics for all the letters of the alphabet except one. Yes, I even managed J, Q and Z. But not R. I'm stymied. Ruminant and rumen just don't seem to have a light side. What else is there?
These are fun. Even with illustrations there are only 60 pages or so. Goats lead on to short fiction, ten pieces about a kid. Throw in some funny memories and there's a book.
All I need now is to finish the illustrations and find a title. Goat Alphabet Book won't do. There must be a good one if I can only think of it.
Standing around watching my goats eat over the winter is boring. Most of them are dry and only there to eat. It's cold. The mind wanders.
Somehow I came up with Dandy wether debating whether or not that wether wanted to go out in rainy weather. What about another letter? Say A. Alpines align alertly. Why? The genesis of an alliterative story.
One by one I've managed to find goat topics for all the letters of the alphabet except one. Yes, I even managed J, Q and Z. But not R. I'm stymied. Ruminant and rumen just don't seem to have a light side. What else is there?
These are fun. Even with illustrations there are only 60 pages or so. Goats lead on to short fiction, ten pieces about a kid. Throw in some funny memories and there's a book.
All I need now is to finish the illustrations and find a title. Goat Alphabet Book won't do. There must be a good one if I can only think of it.
