Creating Characters for Your Children’s Story
Many authors struggle to create fully developed, believable characters, and doing character interviews is one method I (and many authors) use to achieve this goal.
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Leveled Readers for Children
An important and unique aspect of writing for children is that authors need to be aware of and consistently apply established rules for making manuscripts age-appropriate. However, at the same time, it’s important to remember that the rules and leveling tools that are available are of limited value in helping writers craft fiction and nonfiction…
Writing for the Educational Market
One way to build a freelance writing business, particularly if you’re a teacher or former teacher, is to write for the educational market.
Mark Victor Hansen and Bill Froelich – Interview – Ur the Solution
Listen to the interview here. An enduring fable of our times for young and old and in-between. An adventure for the soul. An uplifting tale from the heart. A journey into the state of awareness and the shift in consciousness that leads to the action of solutions. An offering of world-shaking practical answers to the…
Are You a Green-Eyed Monster?
Shakespeare was one of the first people known to refer to jealousy as a “green-eyed monster” in the well-known scene in Othello in which the evil villain Iago warns Othello, “O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on.” Many literary scholars believe Shakespeare was…
Filling Your Blog’s Editorial Calendar
When you get the idea for a blog, you really want to start off on the right foot. You take the time to find out which platform is best and which plugins will help you make the most of your visitors’ experience – but then you get stuck when it comes time to create the…
Breaking the Rules When It Comes to Writing
Do You Know Which Writing Rules to Break and When It’s Okay to Break Them? Writing instructors and editors often stress certain rules for improving one’s writing and selling manuscripts to publishers and book/magazine buyers. Some of these rules – like the admonition to “show don’t tell” – are so deeply engrained in writers’ advice…
Beware of Author Scams
a guest post from children’s author Melissa Abramovitz If you are an established or aspiring author or freelance writer, you may have been targeted by any of the many scams that specifically target writers. Amazingly, I have only been targeted by two such scams during my 30 years as a professional writer. I say “amazingly”…
How to Choose a Title: The Importance of the Title
How to Choose a Title for Your Story, Book, or Article a guest post from children’s author Melissa Abramovitz What’s the best way to spark readers’ interest in your book (or short story or nonfiction article)? Give it a good title. How to choose a title? The title is like the book’s calling card—the all-important…
Explore, Dream, Discover
A guest post from freelance writer and artist Deborah Lyn Stanley Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover….
Holidays: A Never Ending Source of Story Ideas
A Guest Post from Children’s Author Melissa Abramovitz Writing about Holidays Happy February! Like most months of the year, February has a well-known holiday—Valentine’s Day. So what does this have to do with writing for children? A Never-Ending Source of Ideas Holidays provide a never-ending source of fiction and nonfiction story ideas, and since holidays…
Children’s Ghostwriting Services
Do you want your name as author on a children’s picture book (PB), chapter book, or middle grade (MG) book — without having to write it yourself? Maybe, you started a children’s fiction book, but found it’s just too difficult to finish, or realize that it needs major tweaking and editing. Maybe you have an…
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