Everything kidlit with Larissa D. Elliott.
Welcome! This site is dedicated to my love of books for kids. I hope to entertain you with my stories, inspire you to read and write, and educate you in the craft of writing.
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#DiversifyMyArt
Welcome! I am a picture book author and aspiring illustrator. A personal goal of mine recently has been to expand the range of diversity that I portray in my art. But because of my ADHD, it is difficult to make habits like creating art regularly. Thus, I am creating this challenge to push myself and…
My First NaNoWriMo
I started writing novels in 2015. I had a dream of a scene I just had to write down. And I’ve been a writer ever since. A couple of months after that first writing inspiration, I found the NaNoWriMo challenge. Below is the old blog post (from my old blog) where I recount the adventure…
NaNoWriMo
NaNoWriMo is the short term for “National Novel Writing Month” where writers try to write 50,000 words of a novel in November. That averages to 1,667 words per day! I first started writing in the fall of 2015 and was happy to discover the NaNoWriMo challenge. It was a great motivator to push through and…
Choosing the Right Meter
There are lots of posts out there about poetic meter in rhyming picture books. But how do you choose the right meter for your story? The Choices There are two basic types of meter. The first meter has two parts in each segment (a segment is called a “foot”). Two-part meter is what I refer…
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