First Line Revision Story: Guest Post at PB First Lines
During the summer of 2020, I had the idea to write a picture book about famous mistakes from history. I began collecting “mistake stories” whenever I found them: everything from Vice President Dan Quayle’s famous misspelling of the word potato to Ada Lovelace’s programming of the first computer bug. But I didn’t know yet how these stories would fit together. (Spoiler: neither of those examples ended up making it into the book!)
One morning in the shower (I know, such a cliche!), I came up with this rhyming couplet, which became the first line of the very first draft of Marvelous Mistakes:
Have you ever forgotten the words to a song
and belted out notes that were totally wrong?
Read the rest of the post here!
Big thanks to Sara Kruger for featuring my revision story for the month of October. Marvelous Mistakes will officially launch later this month. Order it now at Bookshop, Barnes & Noble, or Amazon!
