tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83528601653366510.post6947714100489791698..comments2024-01-03T04:03:15.300-05:00Comments on S.P. Bowers: BecomingS.P. Bowershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09746614009206426805noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83528601653366510.post-60444882487991229222011-10-27T21:06:12.079-04:002011-10-27T21:06:12.079-04:00Well, usually you just submit it and the publisher...Well, usually you just submit it and the publisher finds an illustrator. Kinda like when they make your cover and title. Illustrators submit portfolios to publishers just as writers submit manuscripts.S.P. Bowershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09746614009206426805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83528601653366510.post-34458527632420545312011-10-27T20:17:00.266-04:002011-10-27T20:17:00.266-04:00Ooh, I wonder how you would go about finding an il...Ooh, I wonder how you would go about finding an illustrator?Deniz Bevanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17134553551048836979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83528601653366510.post-50706408422887726662011-10-27T07:07:42.294-04:002011-10-27T07:07:42.294-04:00Yea, that's a BIG moment.Yea, that's a BIG moment.S.P. Bowershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09746614009206426805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83528601653366510.post-29576406408183849492011-10-27T02:45:20.436-04:002011-10-27T02:45:20.436-04:00I called myself a writer the first time I ever fin...I called myself a writer the first time I ever finished a piece. I'd started many stories, but was never brave enough to stay with them 'til the end. Once I did, THEN I was a writer!widdershinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04205462833259334647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83528601653366510.post-80479246618941255662011-10-26T13:26:30.908-04:002011-10-26T13:26:30.908-04:00Ruth, I know that back and forth. Ignore the pose...Ruth, I know that back and forth. Ignore the poser days and soon there will be more and more of the other kind.S.P. Bowershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09746614009206426805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83528601653366510.post-60514734156433522562011-10-26T13:25:13.558-04:002011-10-26T13:25:13.558-04:00Deniz, I've been a storyteller a few times whe...Deniz, I've been a storyteller a few times when I wasn't writing much. Funny enough some of the stories I made up and told people because picture book ideas. If only I knew anything about writing picture books.S.P. Bowershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09746614009206426805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83528601653366510.post-49469163029471013672011-10-26T11:18:44.145-04:002011-10-26T11:18:44.145-04:00Depends on the day. Sometimes I feel like a total ...Depends on the day. Sometimes I feel like a total poser. But other times I feel like I have a grasp on this thing I'm trying do and that something may come of it.Ruth Jossehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08664678990038670303noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83528601653366510.post-42647183501953205212011-10-25T21:30:56.744-04:002011-10-25T21:30:56.744-04:00I guess it's too easy to answer that I've ...I guess it's too easy to answer that I've always been a writer. It's weird - Diana talks about how even if there was no paper or pen and she'd lived 2,000 years ago, she'd have been the village storyteller. I'm not sure that's me. But I get this itch, this urge, this compulsion, and I have to explore stories and characters and emotions through pen and paper.<br />And I must copy edit [bg]Deniz Bevanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17134553551048836979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83528601653366510.post-46298789167191754792011-10-25T18:59:13.268-04:002011-10-25T18:59:13.268-04:00That's pretty cool. Then you had that assuranc...That's pretty cool. Then you had that assurance whenever the times got hard. Sounds like a great way to do it.S.P. Bowershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09746614009206426805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83528601653366510.post-43594680567105124812011-10-25T16:33:20.252-04:002011-10-25T16:33:20.252-04:00Although I have gradually become a much better wri...Although I have gradually become a much better writer, the feeling where I actually considered myself a writer was much quicker. It came when I first decided that I wanted to do this professionally, and that I'd work and work and work until I got there. It was more of a flip-the-switch moment.Peggy Eddlemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10241451940725996650noreply@blogger.com