Things I’m learning while writing a boy chapter book:

1. It is not as easy as it looks
2. According to my 11 year old son, “Mom” life lessons cannot be included
3. Locate sense of humor (it’s around here somewhere)
4. Make a list of kid sayings, helps if one lives with you.  Take good notes
   1. “booger leakage” – when you have a runny nose that doesn’t stop even when you try to suck it back up
5. Practice burping and farting and think about how it can be applied to the story
6. If you are not having fun writing it… odds are the reader won’t have fun reading it
7. Write things that make you laugh like a kid
8. Practice burping and farting again… just for fun