So How to Get Started on a Book

     Everyone who writes find their own ways of doing things. I am visual so I like to see things visually and not just in words. For this reason, when I am doing a children's book I do a storyboard. 
     What is a storyboard? Basically it is a thumbnail of each page so you can see the entire layout of your book. You can then do the changing around of pages, or ideas without having to do it in the finished book.
     If you are writing a novel such as a murder mystery, some people write each idea out of little notes and stick them on a wall and then move them around. I prefer to use a mind mapping program and make the notes this way on my computer. I can still lay it all out, but I can see it without the bits of paper I would most likely loose!
     Anyone can write a book if they have the desire to do so. I think this is possibly how it is for many things. When I was going to the art college, there were there some students deemed "gifted" or "up and coming" however most of them went and did nothing with their talents and ended up in taxi jobs or whatever (which is fine but not what they had intended).
    One thing I have found is talent isn't the whole thing. I know folks with very little obvious talent but are so determined, they make things happen for themselves while the ones who have things come easy to them often take this for granted and do nothing or next to nothing.
   Writing a book is like this. It is ok to have skills and talents, but take heart if you feel you don't!  If you have something you want to express, then do it! You can always find folks with the skills to draw the pictures or make the corrections! Ideas are what it is all about and then, the desire and drive to make it happen!