Writing stories
for children is not as simple as you might assume; it requires you to
think as you used to as a child. This type of writing takes me
back to those early years, with my two younger brothers screaming for
more. Here is a story I'm working on:
Onions
is based upon my own son, Chris, who hated onions in the delicious
meals prepared by his mother, Mary. He and I sort of wrote this
together. It sat around the house for years, waiting to enter
into the light. Funny thing, Chris still hates onions.
There is a second story underway, Barnwell's Tower,
but that is a way off. It deals with an eccentric guy who
accumulates great quantities of "junk." It combines humorous
results of his collection of yard sale and auction items, and how the
New Madrid, Missouri earthquake impacts him and the small town where he
lives in Southeastern Missouri.