PiBoIdMo Day 24: Jannie Ho Finishes Things (and offers a prize)

Yes, ideas are dreams but finishing them is a dose of reality.
And finishing is one thing but getting them out in the world quite another!
Thanks for a useful reminder.

Ahhh, do I ever need this quote. Ideas were never my problem but making them real, well, that’s another story. I want my report card to read: :plays well with others and finishes what she starts”. – Kate

oh boy oh boy i would love that! it’s a message i really need and the kind of illustration i love jb

Ouch! This hits a nerve. Yes, dreaming up ideas is the fun, easy part. Executing them is more difficult. I have a house, and a hard drive, filled with unfinished projects — although I’m doing a Thanksgiving Happy Dance for finishing a mid-grade novel this week! Now its time to roll up the sleeves and get to work on those PiBoIdMo ideas . . .

Thanks for the inspiration. There are so many things I’ve started and have yet to finsih. I think I might actually attempt to see my current project all the way through. Super cute illustration!

I do agree with your inspiring quote above.
I have many things in hands: studies, personal projects and so on.
It’s fruitful and satisfy to get things finish….
It’s a bonus to finish well too, new opportunities will always come to knock on our door!

Wow…I so need your picture hanging in my office…right above my computer!

Ooh, I love your illustration! Thanks for the great advice! 🙂

Short yet very sweet!!!!!!!! I’ve been trying to work the “finishing” part of this project into my time and brain. Good word! I want to be an artist!!!! Not a wanna-be! 🙂

Awesome quote. I have so many ideas but unfortunately, I can only finish them one at a time.

Jannie you are sooo right. I have a ton of ideas, but don’t know the best way to develop most of them. That will come with time and practice, I imagine, with experimentation, and a little magic. 🙂 At this point I simply want to finish one book to my satisfaction. That may sound easy to some, but we picture book writers know that it’s not.

LOVE this illustration, love this advice. (And, I totally want that cool shirt with the “Writer” name badge. Rockin’ the threads, Mr. Bear!) Thanks, Jannie!

heart the print. 🙂

It’s so easy to start any project, but finishing…ay yi yi! That’s the trick, isn’t it? BTW, I love the title…The Reindeer Rebellion. Great!

Wow … I should print this post out and put it above my desk. I am usually an idea machine but often lack the confidence to follow through and see my ideas to completion.

I once heard a writer-professor say, “If you’re not wallpapering your office in rejection letters, you’re not a real writer.” I think that goes in the same vein as your concept of finishing something. It’s important to make space for free-flowing brainstorms but also to push ourselves to complete the story, edit and then put it out there.

Your right, the hardest part of writing is following up and finishing! Thanks for the reminder.

I love this. So simple and so true. Thank you.

Good point, well-taken. For me, the difficulty is generally not in the writing of the story; it is sending the story out. I am more willing to write than I am to do the business end of things. But that has to be done, too. Love the illustration.

I, too, have many ideas I have not fleshed out. Thanks for encouraging me to get back to that list and start making it something more than just an idea. Love the illustration. Thanks.

That quote is exactly what I need. Thanks!

I think I could write an entire book of first sentences. I don’t suppose that would count? Thanks for the kick!

I LOVE Jannie Ho’s work and have admired it for a long time. This is a great piece!!

I’m Jannie’s biggest Twitter fan! Her style is so fun. I love chicken! =P