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What is a Children’s Novel? This sounds like a basic question but you’d be surprised how many submissions miss the …
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Writing for Younger Readers Young Middle Grade, early readers, chapter books – writing for emerging readers is a special privileged …
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How to write a pitch Writing a pitch before I begin a new story, or at the very early stages, …
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Where to find ideas Where do you get your ideas from? It’s probably one of the questions writers are asked …
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Openings The most important word in your book is the first one, then the next, then the first sentence and …
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Start with 2D characters, stock, like you would find in a sitcom to make sure all the characters in your …
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Activities for generating ideas X Meets Y Flip the script of a popular concept/story Focus on the miniature/details in life …
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The quickest way to start a story is with the following formula: WHO + WHAT + WHY + WHEN + …
Who are you writing for? Writing for children can be trickier than writing for adults because as children develop so …
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