5/18/2023 0 Comments 7 Ate 9 by Tara LazarA picture book is different than a magazine short story, a graphic novel and countless other literary forms. To sell a story, you need to familiarize yourself with said format. Every genre has a standard length and general format. The point of the dummy article I wrote (the second I got home) is to inform PB writers about format, like I was informed that day. I was embarrassed that I had been writing picture books without any idea of how they were formatted. That day, everything about my writing changed. She drew the diagrams above on the back of my manuscript and told me that I had to focus on scenes as well as words. I took a pen and went swoop, here! Swoop, there! Swoop, swoop, ta-da swoop! Turns out I had 42 gazillion breaks! She then asked me to mark natural page breaks. I first learned about the picture book format when an editor told me my 500-word PB was “too long”. It presents guidance on page breaks and how many a picture book can sustain. For a dozen years, this post on picture book dummies has been one of this site’s most popular articles.
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