Those were very different paths for me. Short stories you send to the magazines. Children's books is an entirely different arena. Then you start thinking about publishers such as Scholastic and so on. Ok, explain for both Howard.
Good writing is never so much finished as abandoned.
The trick is not to abandon too soon. Aved me from an Agent From Hell, once. The hardest part about doing art is knowing when to stop. Yes, SFWA does have a web site. It's too early day after Halloween for me to be much original.