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I have also written many stories in the strange sleepless surreal land that is having small adorable children banging on pots and refusing shoes. (I actually did a video about writing in very small spurts, and still getting writing done, here: https://juliefalatko.substack.com/p/writing-in-30-second-spurts)

I don't write short stories, though, I write picture books, which are actually short stories, I guess, but with illustrations, and for kids so there's no cussing or sexytime, but otherwise: the same. You are probably reading a bunch of picture books already. I'm not here to tell you what to write, but there is a satisfying process to writing one page a day of a picture book, in the time it takes you to scribble something down on an index card while the macaroni is boiling. A page of a picture book is a sentence, or a few words. It's pretty fun.

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