When I’m writing for kids, I must lookout! See that I don’t end up writing therapy books. Its easy to be top down and weave a moral into my story. Kids can sense this and they switch off. I must write without having to preach. Must write from the heart. I learn my lessons through [...]

For young kids, we write with more dialogue, less blocks of text, and use simple themes. Just as we change the style of writing according to the age group we target, we do the same when drawing for them.
Let’s illustrate for kids. For every age group, the style of illustrating changes - the way we [...]

Folk think that writing for kids is easy. In fact everyone who has told a child a story feels like an author who can be published. Wish it was as simple as that. I find that now that I’m an adult, I need to connect solidly with my childhood and think like a child to [...]

Its my job to have ideas. Its great fun capturing an idea and fleshing it out to make it my own when I write or draw. Ideas are like the air we breathe. They’re all around us if we but pause to look at a problem from all angles.
I’m fascinated by folk with ideas - [...]

We all have talents. We must learn to identify the ones we’re passionate about and use them to the best of our ability. Once we gain confidence in ourselves through our talents, its a good idea to mentor, share and help others identify theirs. And when we’re masters in one field, we could move on [...]