Love this post! Thank you for sharing. Are you able to share the synopsis for Book 2 from the proposal? I'm a little confused because this post makes it sound like you wrote the proposal and then later had the inspiration of the kindness tickets/kiddo's made of language, which makes me wonder how general or specific was the book 2 synopsis in the proposal. Thanks!
Oh yes! I was a little muddy about that (probably because I was a little muddy remembering.) I knew it was going to be about the ticket challenge from the proposal. I wrote the synopsis in my pitch as follow: "When her kindergarten teacher sets up a bucket filling challenge, Ava is determined to be the kindest of all! But when she’s distracted by the classroom turtle and inventing a new secret language, it’s hard to stay ahead. Ava finally finds a way to fill the bucket—but not in the way she expected!" I didn't have a story yet, but I sprinkled in more items from my list of ideas and wove them together. So the sequence is not quite accurate in the post, I'll clean it up to reflect. Thank you for catching for clarity!
Enjoyed reading the background story of how Ava Lin came to be!
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Such a detailed and helpful recap, as usual. Thanks, Vicky.
Thank you, Sue! Glad it’s helpful.
Love this post! Thank you for sharing. Are you able to share the synopsis for Book 2 from the proposal? I'm a little confused because this post makes it sound like you wrote the proposal and then later had the inspiration of the kindness tickets/kiddo's made of language, which makes me wonder how general or specific was the book 2 synopsis in the proposal. Thanks!
Oh yes! I was a little muddy about that (probably because I was a little muddy remembering.) I knew it was going to be about the ticket challenge from the proposal. I wrote the synopsis in my pitch as follow: "When her kindergarten teacher sets up a bucket filling challenge, Ava is determined to be the kindest of all! But when she’s distracted by the classroom turtle and inventing a new secret language, it’s hard to stay ahead. Ava finally finds a way to fill the bucket—but not in the way she expected!" I didn't have a story yet, but I sprinkled in more items from my list of ideas and wove them together. So the sequence is not quite accurate in the post, I'll clean it up to reflect. Thank you for catching for clarity!