In January, I signed up for Storystorm 2021, a free month-long brainstorming event for picture book story ideas. This annual event was created and is hosted by author Tara Lazar. 

The Storystorm challenge is to create 30 story ideas in 30 days. Each day, you spend time brainstorming ideas and jot down every idea you come up with, no matter how strange, silly, serious or funny. You don’t have to write the entire manuscript at that moment… simply continue jotting down ideas. Then later, you can come back to your huge list of ideas and work on fleshing out the stories.

Tara Lazar offers daily inspirations on her blog during the month of January to help motivate, spark ideas and get those creative juices flowing. Registered participants can also win prizes!

I invited a few writing friends to join me for the Storystorm challenge. Not only did we have fun, we now have a huge cache of ideas to pull from for our picture book writing. Registration begins every year in late December – I highly recommend marking your calendar, so you don’t miss Storystorm 2022. I’ll be participating – come join me!  (Register here)