Catcher In The Rye Persuasive Essay

The most beautiful things in this world are not tangible, the things you can only feel with your heart, the ones unexplainable to the rest. The power to inflict emotions upon an audience with just a story is a power I have always wanted to possess. I love the great storytellers but never believed I could be more than a consumer. For my senior project I will be creating a children’s story book. I have always loved reading children’s books, even now in my teenage years. Don’t get me wrong, I like Catcher In The Rye and To Kill A Mockingbird as much as the next person, but there's something about a kids book that you just can’t get enough of. In a children’s book, you get to explore the whimsical made up worlds and characters that make you feel young again. Completely engaging yourself into that time or place when everything was easy with no worries.

I conveniently already had a
This was possibly one of the hardest things I had to do in my project. Getting started. I think I came up with about seven different stories before I actually greenlit one. In the beginning I made the horrible mistake of trying to satisfy the people before satisfying myself. I believe you have to make a story for you before you make it for your audience. During my process in the beginning I was spending a lot of time figuring out how I can make my children’s book more for kids. That one problem suddenly became the only thing I was focusing on. When brainstorming ideas, I would create great stories that could be for kids but I didn’t like them myself. It was always: “well the kids would like this”. One day while in utter frustration, I just stopped everything and asked myself a big question: “What story do you want to tell?”. In order for people to like your story, you yourself have to love it first, you can’t make a story you don’t care for, or other people won’t care for it either. It definitely shows through your work whether you're enjoying yourself or