I took great pride in telling the kids in my school how they were all going to the broccoli factory on their school tour. This amazing joke also got great use at home, with my kids. When I caught the writing bug properly earlier this year, I figured that if I was trying out two different genres, why not three. And thus, The Broccoli Factory went from joke to children’s book idea.
It’s not as easy as I mistakenly thought it would be. I settled on the AABB rhyming style. Rhyming is easy but writing something interesting with rhymes at the end is not. I’ve written four spreads out of a planned twelve, this was about mid-April. Then I took an unplanned hiatus from the story, but I plan on getting it finished before the end of June. That’s if I don’t get distracted by a new idea, which I coincidentally had yesterday. I remembered an old idea I had when I was seven, when my First Class teacher asked us all to put together little books. I shall endeavour to put that idea on hold for now!
Darragh Ó Bradáin 
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