I've just been introduced to An Awfully Big Blog Adventure, a terrific multi-author blog created by a group of British children's books writers. Running since July 2008, the blog features regular posts on fiction, storytelling, the book publishing world, the creative process and the writing life by authors such as Katherine Langrish, Susan Price, Charles Butler, and many others. If you're a fan of children's books, or a writer of such tales, I highly recommend it.
It's well worth taking the time to peruse the older posts on the blog, for there are some treasures here. Joan Lennon, for example, discusses what has to be the very best William Morris quote ever: "If a chap can't compose an epic poem while he's weaving tapestry he had better shut up."
Lennon comments: "It's the sheer, outrageous, well-of-course-we're-creative-don't-make-a-fuss-just-get-on-with-it-ness of it that makes me want to cheer. Yes - we are meant to be creative - it's the way we're built - stop talking about it and getting doing it!"
Indeed.
