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Child Book Writing Overview
One of
the best tips anyone can give on child book
writing is to read, read and read. It may be a
few years since you picked up a picture book,
but look over as many childrens books as you
possibly can (ideally the more successful ones
such as Harry Potter) and analyse them. You will
soon see that they share common ingredients:
Very Well Defined Characters: What are the best
characters in a childs book? What common traits
or features do good villains have? What do good
heroes or heroines have in common. Often you
will be able to spot similar features or themes
such as compassion and work them into your story
in order to make it more effective and
compelling for the child who reads it.
Very Clear Plot: When writing a book for a child
what tips can you pick up for the plot? Do
successful books start with a bang or are they
slow burners? Pacing is very important in all
books, and the pacing has to match the story
type and – most importantly – the reader.
These are just two of the many important
features you should be researching for child
book writing.
Then of course, you need to bring it all
together. You may have all the ideas for the
story, but little notion of how to structure it.
Alternatively, you may have just arrived at the
dreaded ‘writers block.’ Our novel writing
software can help all types of writer –
providing you with a whole armory of tools to
get you started, through the middle and across
the finishing line. There are note taking
features to facilitate free-flowing idea
generation; prompts for plot and character
features which may start the creative juices
flowing again; tuition at every stage relevant
to the step you are currently working on.
Another way in which our novel writing software
can help with your child book or novel writing
is to allow back-tracking to change parts of the
story or characters. Not only does this help you
change the story as you go, but it also means
you have a record of the notes. So you can make
a change to a character for a particular stage
of the story and then check back to ensure that
their personality and appearance remain constant
throughout the story line. When writing, it is
easy to go off track, so this type of feature is
certainly a time saving device – and that is
usually what we need as much as anything else.
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Creative writing and learning how to write a novel can be
exceptionally hard. First, you have to learn the basics, then
you have to practice….and practice…and practice. And you also
have to research what makes a successful novel. The vast
majority of novels adopt a basic formula, and we incorporate
these within NewNovelist.
Whilst throughout these additional information pages we have
provided tips and “how-to” advice, the real gold dust is in our
software program (available on CD or to download). It is based
on tuition from the leading university Creative Writing course
in England (University of East Anglia), and uses templates to
provide you with the structure you might otherwise spend years
researching. These templates can teach you the basics to writing
all different types of novel: crime, mystery, detective,
fantasy, childrens, thrillers, military and many many more. In
short, it provides you with a virtual tutor.
In addition to the template structure, there is context
sensitive help available – advising you on timing, tone and beat
– and scores of examples drawn from modern and classical
literature. For beginners this will be a revelation. For more
experienced writers it provides a welcome refresher.
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someone as a gift. If you decide to use this option, you
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Whatever your standard of writing, and whatever your motivation,
if you want an all-in-one writing course, advice, tutor, editor
and note taker you should buy NewNovelist today.
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