Post-PiBo Day 1: Corey Rosen Schwartz Looks for What POPS (plus a prize!)

Thank you, Corey! Your words are popping around in my head now! Thanks, Tara for the afterparty, especially on a dreary post-holiday Monday. =)

Good advice–now it’s time to roll up my sleeves and get to work.

I agree, the ideas will probably keep coming for awhile. Thanks for the post!

I love all of the bears! Plus I hadn’t thought about looking on Amazon to see if my favorite book idea already exists 😡 Thanks!

Done! The “Don’t stop, What pops” part, that is. Eager to begin writing!

“Goldi Rocks”!!! I LOVE it 🙂

Goldi is not the only one who rocks! So do you! Thanks for sharing.

Indeed ideas keep coming….Knowing whether the ideas will fly or not is in doing the research…I like the notion of going back over years’ past collected ideas and seeing if there is a pattern or theme that is nagging at you…Just may be that original picture book. Thank you for the encouragement.

Soooo true! Thank for the reminder ot do the research. Needed it 😀

And off I go!

I started on one of my ideas a couple days ago. Ooops, I forgot to check what was out there regarding this idea. Know what I’ll be doing this morning! Thanks for the ideas and advice.

Full steam ahead!

Thanks, Corey! I hadn’t thought about lining up the ideas to see what pops. Great idea!

A great reminder to keep going. Thanks!

Corey – Thank you for the encouragement!

Sage advice! I got two great ideas this morning: one pb and one chapter book. ‘Good thing there are 8 pages left in my PiBoIdMo notebook. The art for your new book rocks too! ‘Can’t wait to see the whole package. Thanks.

Thanks Corey. This is a great post!

Good advice about checking titles on Amazon. It’s surprising how often our unique thoughts . . . aren’t unique! Thanks for this post!

Will keep trying! Thanks for the pep talk!

Keeping at it on this post-piboidmo Monday morning. Watching for pops and pings! Thanks for your great advice about shopping and not stopping. Can’t wait to read “Goldi Rocks & the Three Bears.”

Great advice to check Amazon for similar titles before starting in on writing! Thanks!

This reminds me of a song from one of of those old animated Christmas TV specials – “Put one foot in front of the other and soon you’l be walking out the door.”

Great! I’ll keep on keeping on. 🙂

Thanks!

I’m looking forward to working on my first draft of my favorite idea this week!

Any other baseball fans in this particular children’s book community? When I first saw baby bear’s advice, I was like, “Wait, I know you can measure your OPS– your on-base-plus-slugging–but I don’t think you can weigh it.”

Anyway, this is brilliant advice. I got my first December idea yesterday and was pretty psyched about that.

Hahaha, super de duper post. So let me get this straight. Keep keepin’ on! Gotcha! 🙂 Cannot wait to read GOLDI ROCKS & THE THREE BEARS. *waving*

You’re so right! I have 30+ ideas, I need to hop to it!

Thanks, Corey! Will keep my notebook handy. 🙂

Thank you!

Thanks Corey. Hope to have some time this week to lay out all my ideas a prioritize and strategize my next steps. I do have a few non-fiction ideas – so I might tackle those. Actually, just got another idea while writing this comment. 🙂

oh I am so excited to read Corey’s new book. Her first book was awesome and she is sooo helpful and kind in person 🙂

Got it! I won’t stop, won’t stop!

Thanks for the post-PiBo encouragement, Corey! We’re big fans of Three Ninja Pigs–so funny, and your latest Goldilocks book looks hilarious too.

The ideas are going, going! I need to start plotting and organizing. Figure out my strategies. So many ideas. Thanks for the encouragement.

Great post! 🙂

Excellent point, Corey. Times a-wasting. 2014, year of the submissions. Thanks!

Keep going…good advice. I’m on a roll.

post-piboidmo. Hooray! Thanks for sharing.

Great ideas. Thanks!

Super advice, Corey! The brainstorming (and writing) continues!

Great post : )

Thanks for the inspiration. I wish we could have these posts every day of the year 🙂 Happy Monday everyone!

Thanks! Got my best idea of the month on Saturday when I wasn’t looking for one, since I had reached 30:>)

Thanks for the inspiration, Corey! Love it!

Very cute ideas! And good inspiration not to stop (even though it is tempting because there is so much to do this time of year.) I am bringing my notepad with me everywhere I go, for when those ideas POP and the stories start to take shape. Love your books, Corey! And so do kids! Your genuine personality just jumps off the page :).

thanks! Keep on rocking the inspiration!

Nice surprise to see another post on here! Love both of the ideas for the books. I love anything with the three bears; nice to see yet another fresh twist on the tale. It’s a great springboard for teaching kids character development and storytelling when I do school visits.

I agree with your post. I have several more ideas after PiBoIdMo and I think these may be better than before. Love the Goldi-Rocks book. Hope I win!

Hmmmmm. My comment didn’t show up. I will try again. Thanks for the great advice. This series of posts has been a real gift to me.

Thanks, Corey. The ideas don’t end here! Slobberdon – I love it. My family enjoyed THE THREE NINJA PIGS, and it is very popular at our local library.

Thanks for a fun follow-up, Corey. Seatbelt fastened. Butt in chair. Rear in gear. Generating mode–on!

Great post!! Thank you for inspiring me to keep going 🙂

Great post! Thanks, Corey!

What a fun post.

Keeping momentum here. Had oodles of time on the drive back from FL.

The Tyrannosaurus Wrecks idea is genius (you get partial credit!). Thanks for the encouragement, Corey.

I’m still working on my PiBoIdMo, trying to turn them into real stories!!!

and Corey love the post. Sorry it just posted without my permission.

Very cute! Thanks! 🙂

You are so right– my mind is still in idea hyper-drive. Now I just need more time!!!

Thanks for the reminder. PiBoIdMo should be every month!

Thanks so much! I am ready to rock and roll!

This is a great post. Thank you, Corey.

Thanks for the encouragement Corey! Love the adorable illos from Goldi Rocks!

Thanks for the post. Time to get writing.

Great post. i have been too slow in the past.
Thanks

I totally agree. Now is not the time to back off. It is time to rumble!

For Christmas, I’m looking forward to new PJ’s to lounge in while I stretch my mind and dig deep with my ideas. I think I’ll also ask for a killer outfit for my sure to be in the future agent/publisher/editor meeting. Feeling the good vibes and will do all I can to keep them coming.

Great ideas, Corey! Just what I needed to take the next step – thanks!

Thanks for the excellent ideas for keeping the creativity going and what the next step is on our road to publication. Blessings to you and yours.

Thanks for the encouragement! Now that we’re on fire, it’s exciting seeing ideas in strange, unlikely places. What fun!

Enjoyed the post! Great thought on research before delving too deep into developing an idea.

I love the name, Slobberdon. Good golly it’s been a fun month.
Thanks,
Lynn

What great advice! Especially checking to see if it’s been done before. Thanks!

Excellent advice, Corey! I love those dinosaur ideas, sounds like that could make a cute pb, too. I’ll keep idea hunting.

The world can never have too many T Rex stories.

How can you go wrong with advice that rhymes? Thanks.

Great post. Time to keep rocking.

Right! Keep going because coming up with ideas is fun.
Thanks for your post

yeah, one of my ideas, I thought, yep, I’d be surprised if someone hasn’t done this before. I googled it, and, yes, there it was, in several different forms, but mostly satirical. Possibly though there may be space for a new look in classic pb style of a classic pb…

But I’ll look in to my other, slightly more original ideas first!

Thanks for the advice to keep on generating ideas. After 30 days, I’m on a roll so why stop now?!

Thanks for your ideas. I will enjoying adding new titles and drafting a story for the best of the best.

I can relate to someone else beating you to it. And you’re right
if we just sit back and watch we might just miss an opportunity.

Corey rocks as always!

Thanks for pushing us to keep going and it’s a great idea to look at last year’s ideas. My new manuscript is a combination of an idea from 2012 and this year.

great post!

I hadn’t thought of looking to see what is out there before I start fleshing out a manuscript from ideas. Thanks again.

I have to stop reading these posts at work! I want to run back home and hide in the studio! And I didn’t bring any supplies today so I am drawing on index cards!

Thanks Corey! I’ll keep my notebook handy!

The next goal: write a draft. Got it. That I can do but the sending it out part is scary. Thanks for the encouragement.

Good motivation. Thanks!

Good advice – thanks for the reminder to look at past idea lists.

I have done this same thing…great idea, race to the computer to google, only to see it has been done uuughhggh! It’s ok,(after the initial let down)… I smile and think… at least I am on the right track! Great minds think alike lol Thanks for the sharing this great post!

Thanks for the fun post and great tips!

Shop till you drop–great advice re the done manuscript!!!!!!!!

Fun post. Thank you!

Thanks for all the tips on how to keep the ideas flowing.

good crack-o-the-whip post! and I know somewhere in Kansas, my doppelganger is writing my exact story

Thanks so much! The Three Ninja Pigs is one of my favorite books!

Just keep going is so true. Just like “just write” to keep at it, we need to keep generating ideas to keep going too. Thanks.

Thanks for the encouraging advice! 🙂

Thank you, Corey! for the valuable advice. And thank you Tara for facilitating the after-party to keep the momentum going.

What a brilliant post, Corey. This makes me think one thing, ‘must write faster.’ *laughs* I must also find a way to speed up my drawing process too. I’m always watchful for what’s out there in the market, thankfully I haven’t seen one quite as close to the three I’m currently working on.
Congrats on your soon to be published book, I love the sound of the title. ^_^ Cheers!

Yes! Love all this advice, especially about making sure the idea isn’t already out there in a similar form BEFORE working on the manuscript.

Shop til you drop, eh? Yeah, I’ve only been doing that in the grocery stores as of late. Thanks for the reminder that it’s a race against minds sometimes. Seven billion of us!

Your post pops, and rocks. thank you so much for you r post.