One of the things that I’m doing as a result of COVID-19 social distancing is taking time to improve my photography. Here’s a shot of two mules. It’s okay. I was six feet away from them, and I used a Zoom lens. This could be the impetus for a non-fiction book about mules, maybe HOW MULES PARENT or a fictional story about a mule who longs to get out where the grass is greener but discovers that greener does not always mean sweeter. I also thought I’d share a photo I took at the Dragon Lights Festival in 2018

Imagine each of these fish interacting with each other. Wouldn’t that make an interesting picture book? What else do you see in this shot that inspires you?

I challenge you to write a picture book based on my ideas. Don’t worry about stealing the concept. If we were both in a writing workshop with 200 other people and one of the challenges was to write a book based on this photo, we would get 200 different stories. The trick is to create a story that others want to read, over-and-over.