![]() ![]() So when I pay attention to that part of new knowledge that I had, something that was a realization, then I knew I, I could write a story and I did it. ![]() Yuyi Morales: When I came to United States, like many other people, like immigrants have come to a new place, we bring a lot of presents with us. Like for example, the fact that I always thought that I came to the United States with nothing that I have come and I have been received and I brought nothing to give and, and that changed. What is what I wanted to say that I have learned, even things that before I thought were true. Yuyi Morales: And so I wrote that story first, like that. And I'm just going to breathe out a text that, that summarizes more than my story, like the things I learned when I became an immigrant. Yuyi Morales: So at the beginning I made many different drafts, and it was even longer and I wasn't going to do short stories, but then finally, one day I decided like, I'm going to make this just almost as if I'm breathing, I'm going to breathe in. ![]() So when I thought that I wanted to tell the story, at the beginning, I had a hard time figuring out how a story written by an adult was going to be something that could speak to children, that children will feel connected to it. And when I came to United States, I was already an adult. In my story, as a person who came from one country into the United States as an immigrant. Yuyi Morales: Yeah, that one, it took me a long time to write that story because if you are familiar with Dreamers, it is a story that is inspired in my own story. Grace Lin: How did it work for your picture book, Dreamers? Did you have like a rough map, like you said for that book as well? Because I know it's going to change once the pictures come through. Usually I write the story just so I can sell the idea to the publisher and then I'm cutting and cutting. And actually, honestly, it's, it's similar to how I do it too, because I write the story, but then I do the pictures and as I'm doing the pictures, I'm always, usually cutting and cutting all the words out. ![]() And that's such, that's such a beautiful way of looking at it. I love the idea of the story that you write is the map for your pictures. As I start writing more, as I start making some of the pictures then eventually I find my way and it might not even have been the place where I thought I was going to go at the beginning. It's like a compass or a map, where I will find my destination little by little as I work it. At the end, the result will be different and it might not be the words as I wrote them at the beginning, because it's just a way to tell me what direction I want to go. Yuyi Morales: And a map that might change. So more and more, my books are very intertwined in a way that not necessarily the story or the words in the story will be telling what's happening, but it's more like a guide. Yuyi Morales: In Nino Wrestles the World, there was more of a back and forth and where sometimes the illustrations, as I was making the illustrations, they will take over and I would need to say some things in the text. However, there are some books like, I don't know if you're familiar with my book, Nino Wrestles the World. There are some books where I write a story, a story that I know is going to change, but I concentrate in writing the story first and later I worry, I don't even worry, but I will take care of how the visuals come to me. Grace Lin: Do you make a rough draft first of the story and then make the pictures? Kaia: Do you make a rough draft first of the story and then pictures? Today's kid question is from a young person named Kaia and they ask. Yuyi Morales: I'm excited to be talking to you too. Grace Lin: Thank you so much for coming today. Today, I'm here with Yuyi Morales, the author and illustrator of the beautiful picture book Dreamers. I'm Grace Lin, children's book author and illustrator of many books, including the middle-grade novel, When the Sea Turned to Silver, and the picture book A Big Mooncake for Little Star. Welcome back to another great Kids Ask Authors episode! Authors Grace Lin and Yuyi Morales answer the kid question “Do you make a rough draft first and then make the pictures?” ![]()
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