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Thursday, January 24th, 2008When is history fun? When it is told or written in story form. Children are more responsive to stories of true events than they are to reading a conventional history book. Shirley Nelson author of ?What Happened Here?? saw the need for a local history book and wrote it so that children and […]
Girls and Their Dogs - A Children’s Book Pick From the Writing for Children Center
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008Wow! This is the ultimate book for any young girl who loves dogs. In fact, if this book had been around when I was about 8 or 10 years old, I would probably have slept with it under my pillow. At that time, dogs were the most important creatures in my world - as they […]
History Written for Children
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008When is history fun? When it is told or written in story form. Children are more responsive to stories of true events than they are to reading a conventional history book. Shirley Nelson author of ?What Happened Here?? saw the need for a local history book and wrote it so that children and […]
Creating Believable Characters for Children’s Books
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008If you’ve read my previous articles you’ll be aware that I’ve defined children’s books as books that feature a child as the main character and the audience is children.
So, let’s take a look at children as characters.
In picture books, no description of the characters is necessary. Picture books are highly visual and therefore all characters […]
Plotting a Children’s Book
Monday, January 21st, 2008In a previous article I explained the ideas behind some of my children’s books. Over time, I’ve trained my brain to be on “alert” for ideas and I discover a lot more ideas than I have time to put pen to paper or fingers to laptop.
Not all ideas are equal.
Some ideas work well and become […]
Creating Believable Characters for Children’s Books
Sunday, January 20th, 2008If you’ve read my previous articles you’ll be aware that I’ve defined children’s books as books that feature a child as the main character and the audience is children.
So, let’s take a look at children as characters.
In picture books, no description of the characters is necessary. Picture books are highly visual and therefore all characters […]
History Written for Children
Saturday, January 19th, 2008When is history fun? When it is told or written in story form. Children are more responsive to stories of true events than they are to reading a conventional history book. Shirley Nelson author of ?What Happened Here?? saw the need for a local history book and wrote it so that children and […]
How To Write In The Children’s Market (Part 2)
Saturday, January 19th, 2008This is going to be my second article of many that I will be writing on how to break into the children?s writing market. This is going to be a considerably long series so keep checking back for updated posts.
Writing for kids can be one of the greatest ways to break into the writing […]
Children’s Stories - Submitting Manuscripts to Publishers
Friday, January 18th, 2008First you must enjoy writing ? you are doing it for your own satisfaction. I?m sorry to have to inform you that you won?t make a J.K. Rowlings fortune even if you do find a publisher - and you may not. The competition is fierce!
If you haven’t read many children’s books since you were […]
Writing Picture Books for Children
Thursday, January 17th, 2008Picture books look easy to write. They usually contain less than 1,000 words with stories that appear so simple that anyone can write one.
In fact, picture books are the hardest of all children’s books to write and do well.
That doesn’t mean you can’t write one. It means that you need to take time to produce […]