I generally have an idea where I want to go, but I don't know how I'm going to get there.
Lynne Rae PerkinsWith most of my books, there are some parts that pop up right away, and other parts I have to wait for.
Lynne Rae PerkinsI had read [Charles] Dickens's novels were often published serially. I thought it would be fun to write a book, just sitting down and writing a chapter every day, not knowing what would happen next. So that's how I wrote the first draft. And then of course I had to go back and make sure everything worked and change things.
Lynne Rae PerkinsIt would look like a notebook with dividers, and there'd be different subjects and things [preschoolers] could do, so that they could feel like they were going to school also.
Lynne Rae Perkins