I have not stopped writing about Buddhism, I’m just in the middle of finals. In fact, it is about finals that I am posting about today. Specifically, one final, that I am very proud of.
See, I went and wrote a book.
It should be a picture book, and I wrote it with children in mind who struggle with anxiety, who get called “Crybaby” or whose emotions run out of control, are being constantly told to stop crying, but don’t really have the toolkit to do as they’re told. I wrote it to be a very basic self help guide to children with anxiety. I like it.
There’s only one problem: I cannot draw to save my life.
But I know I have many many talented friends who can draw. With many different styles.
This isn’t a demand for a commitment. This isn’t an audition process. This is also not a commission I can afford to pay for, sadly. This is possibly the breach of some sort of etiquette and I hope it isn’t.
What it is, is the announcement that I have uploaded the text portion of a picture book to my webspace, and the invitation for anyone, to download it, read it, and if you would like to draw pictures for it, then to let me know (or to draw thins then let me know).
Because I have written a thing, and I wrote it to have pictures, and I would love it to have pictures.
Here it is:
Sir Padma vs. The Dinosaur
(pdf, 77K)
Well, that was lovely! And an excellent idea for improving the world…I’m only sorry I can’t draw.
Wow! You know I think this makes an excellent story and could be useful for a lot of children. The spinosaurus I could have a crack at, but humans and modern things are not my strong point
So pleased you like it though.
Actually, “But Modern Things Are Not My Strong Point” is a FANTASTIC title for a children’s book?
Our mutual friend could make a nice thing from that, I reckon.
Oh, I’d be terrible at children’s books. They’d all be called things like “How Maggie Realised The Second Law Of Thermodynamics Meant That The Very Thing That Gave Her Freedom Was Also The Thing That Doomed Her To Destruction”.
(Found this via Andrew’s blog and thought I’d post my comment here too.)
Wow. As someone who’s been in tears twice this week over stuff at work, that was incredibly … relevant to me today. I really hope you finds an illustrator and then a publisher.
hi – i came over here from andrew’s blog as i’m someone who both writes and draws and really, REALLY wants to do children’s books… and also suffers from depression part of which is channeled into undue anxiety attacks. so i’d love to have a go at sending you some ideas… i don’t have a scanner but there’s some of my stuff at my blog above… if you think it’s the sort of thing you’d be interested in please let me know… if not then good luck!
Chris,
I just sent you an email. Thanks for your interest!
You were one of the people I was thinking of when I linked this (the other one I was especially thinking of was Dan White, who does Cindy & Biscuit) – I knew it’d be something you’d be interested in.