An organization called picture book summit had a series of small 10 min presentations to give people a taste of what their online conference would be like. These are notes from one of those presentations. Presentation given by: Katie Davis:. Any inaccuracies are the fault of the note taker.

1. Finding ideas:
– Don’t expect to do a grand idea, just come up with a little idea.
– No story is original
– Look at your source of news
– BK: we are welcome – a book of all nationalizes welcome
– Bk: pink is for boys- a book about breaking out gender types.
2. Pick up the front page (or go to your news app!)
– The breaking news-small act of kindness helps unite a community.
– You can see an idea and approach it from a different angle.
– seeing puppies or kitten videos may inspire your best buddy story.
3. Exercise your muscles.
– Traveling on a bus and you can come up with stories of people on the bus.
– Check out news stories
– Use part of a conversation for story
– water cooler conversations can be a source of ideas too.
– put in a file labeled ideas that you can access later.
– use a smartphone and tell it to write down an idea.
– think of different audience that could read your story.
– Think of what if. i.e.: what if the earth stopped spinning. What if you could see sounds. What if the moon fell down? What if we could talk to kittens.
4. Websites for great ideas:
– USA.gov can be a great source of ideas.
– Q: if have too many ideas. Concentrate the one you are most excited about. Book: do the one thing. That talks about concentrating on one thing at a time.
– Check out writing for children podcast.

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