![]() Meek said she also hopes to partner with nonprofits in the future. The book was an international community effort. ![]() Project Canvas worked to gather these opinions from all over the world to put together this one resource.” “This was kind of like a canvassing of the writing community. We wanted to bring in the idea of inspiration and art,” she said. This book is a platform for writers to put their stories onto. “Canvas is what artists use to put their work on. Meek described the inspiration for the title of Project Canvas. “There are so many people here who are willing to throw resources at you and be a mentor for you.” “So many mentors and people have given me advice and motivation,” she said. Meek thanked many of her teachers and advisors for their help with Project Canvas, including Christopher Merrill, who wrote the forward of the book. “We tapped into that and then it just spread all over. “This global network, social media, and online writing communities, the blogging community, the twitter community, it’s where a lot of writers congregate,” she said. According to Meek, they were able to bring together these young authors together via Facebook and other online sources. Many of these international authors also contributed to editing and formatting. Every young writer wrote at least one chapter, for a final 327-page, 71-chapter book written by 61 authors that come from 13 different countries and 6 continents. It soon expanded to authors from all around the world. Meek came up with the idea for this book almost two years ago in December of 2016 with her kindergarten friend, Olivia Rogers, who now attends Kansas State University. She described Project Canvas as “professional but very relatable.” Some of the young authors chose to interview older authors for their chapter, so there are mature perspectives as well. It would be good to use in a classroom or creative writing club because you can use a chapter per lesson.” “It’s split up into such short chapters and units based on elements of writing or what it’s like to be a writer. ![]() “It’s also geared towards educators and people who are running a nonprofit, or a classroom for creative writing,” Meek said. Meek said that the book is geared towards beginning and amateur writers, or just anyone who needs inspiration. I’m really glad that we were able to be so hands-on with it.” That was the goal, in the end, to give these writers experience writing and publishing. “I think the freedom that we had with being able to put it all together made it more special because we did all the editing. We really wanted to have the experience of putting all the pieces together ourselves and being able to direct the project in the way we want it to go,” Meek said. “We chose to self-publish because it was such a community-based project and there were so many people involved. It will be available on Amazon for $16.99 the book is self-published. The book will be officially released Thursday, Nov. ![]()
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