Yesterday afternoon I took over the @BooksAreMyBag Instagram account to post some images to do with my book #Moonlocket which has been nominated for the Book Are My Bag Readers Award. I was able to post some development images of the artwork from Becca Stadtlander and Kath Millichope. As well as some images of my developmental writing from early drafts of the book. Here are the posts –
Takeover by @peter_bunzl — “Here’s some photos from my work developing the early drafts of #Moonlocket – This is the cover of the zero draft, which I wrote at the beginning of 2016. The zero draft, is what I like to call the first version of the book, it’s purpose it just to spew out as many words as possible in vaguely the right order, with a vague indication of the plot. The point is just to get the words on the page, then you can correct them later. Before I even start the zero draft, I usually have some visions of a few ideas for scenes circling around the main concept. So what I like to do is write those things down as one sentence on a post it and start gathering them together in order. This helps me work out the plot. Then I start to scribble longer notes – they might be versions of a scene, details about the characters, or information about the plot and the character relationships, after that I will write a short treatment – I didn’t put an image of that as it’s too spoilery! – and then I just start in on writing the zero draft. Here’s the first page of the zero draft… I cropped it because I’ve written a note at the top which tells the whole plot in one para with spoilers… Also, as you can see, the opening of the zero draft chap 1 is different from the final book!” #BAMB #BambReadersAwards #Usborne #UKMG #ChildrensBooks #CogheartAdventures #BooksAreMyBag #IndieBookshops @Usborne_books @peter_bunzl #BAMBReadersAward
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