This passage from David Perkins' The Eureka Effect made me think of the challenge facing parents in finding the books that they most their children to read and which their children are most likely to enjoy. Perkins is speaking of breakthrough thinking and its constituent components.
The first challenge of finding anything worthwhile in a Klondike wilderness is that there is just so much of it! Our conventional image of a breakthrough involves leaps of the imagination, a matter to be looked at more closely a little later. However, all too often there is no natural path even for imagination to follow. One just has to rove through the wilderness to see what turns up. And, if the wilderness is big, one has to rove with reasonable efficiency.25-35,000 new children's titles are published each year in the US alone.
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Yes. I agree. However, in a wilderness it is best to have a guide.
Like the wilderness, it is important to select the right guide.
When it comes to book writing, you may need several guides--one for writing, one for marketing, and one to help you weather the long periods of uncertainty that are part of the writing experience.
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November 12, 2009 21:13
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