Writing For Children

Do you have a toy box of bright and fun ideas tumbling through your mind? Ideas that may be good for children's books or more advanced thrilling stories for young adults (YA)?

In this book, successful children's book author Anastasia Suen will guide every self-published writer through creating pictures in your young readers' minds. Here is another fab writing reference guide from the experts over at Writers' Digest.

If you need any more ideas, tips and exercises for writing your Children's Fiction novel then dip into Get Writing Children's Fiction by Karen King. Her book is packed full of inspiration, tips and writing exercises for anyone who wants to write children's fiction.

In our series on children's fiction and in particular, learning how to write for children we reviewed the online course Writing Story Books For Children.

Modules include ‘Getting started’ - which talks about the 3 Cs in story structure: Contrast, Conflict, Character. If like me, you love learning more about creating fictional characters this module will tick all your people creating boxes.

Writing for kids is easy, right? We were all kids once and we are surrounded by kids. We know tons of them. Even if you're a hermit hiding in your house writing your self-published books, there'll be kids hanging on your street corner so you can just observe them from a distance. Easy.

Are you writing about magic or magicians or witches or anything to do with Fantasy Fiction?

After Rayne Hall showed us how to put the eeeek into writing scary scenes for those of us writing thrillers, we thought it apt that she weaves a little bit of magic over us to get us into the mood for our feature on Writing Fantasy.

In my own quest to write a fabulous page-turning book for children, I am writing an article on writing for children and how an aspiring author of children’s books can look for information that will fuel their children’s novels.

As a self-published or mainstream published author of children’s fiction can you help us with any of these questions?

Writing Your Children’s Novel

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