Info Dump ~ AKA Author Intrusion - Writing for Children
How do you put in necessary back-story without losing your reader who wants to move forward? Well, instead of using an info dump, I think you should use an info dribble. Just like it sounds. Little bits of info here, and little bits of info ... [... more]
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Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story ...
 Amazon.com Review: Ursula K. Le Guin's extraordinary writing primer is full of charm, wit, and opinion. Le Guin likens writing to "steering a craft," and as one reads through this volume, one has the sense of floating down a river, with the [... more]
$14.95
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Outlining a Book - Writing for Children
Although we still have many topics to talk about, like titles, ages, short stories and nonfiction for children, I think we're ready to jump in and start writing. Let's start with something really big - a book! Wow! It sounded good when you woke ... [... more]
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Writing For Today's Tech-Savvy Readers - Writing for ...
There is no doubt that writing for today's children is challenging. A constant stream of information bombards them every day through television, cell phones, websites and iPods. There are DVD's that teach infants about music and math. It doesn't ... [... more]
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The Writer's Nightmare - Writing for Children
There comes a time in every writer's life when the words just won't come. Children's authors are no exception. The glare of a blank page is blinding, blocking out any view of plot or inspiration. Characters that used to beg for your attention at ... [... more]
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Tense Issues - Writing for Children
It didn't use to be much of a problem for novelists. Everyone wrote in past tense. First person past tense, or third person past tense. Yesterday I hit the ball, kicked the cat, and ate the pancakes. Yesterday Timmy hit the ball, kicked the cat, ... [... more]
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Passive Voice Defined - Writing for Children
Passive voice is to be avoided in writing. Why? Because it's boring. Hmmm. So maybe I should have said, "Writers should avoid using the passive voice." Is that more interesting than the first line I went with? There are "passive voice" [... more]
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World Building Through Metaphor - Writing for Children
When was the last time you lost yourself in a story? Do you know what Hogwarts looks like? What do you remember about Anne's P.E. Island? How about Narnia? Do you have a feel for that world? Because children want to be taken away from the ... [... more]
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Writing.Com: Creative Internet Strategies to Advance ...
Amazon.com Review: "One of the big fears about the Internet," says Moira Anderson Allen in Writing.com, "has been that it would (or will) replace traditional markets for writers." Instead, it seems not only to have increased the [... more]
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THE TRAIN-OF-THOUGHT WRITING METHOD: Practical, ...
Practical, relevant, and clear writing advice: In writing, "The real question is: How do you effectively take (your) ideas and convert them to saleable manuscripts?" (xiii) Kathi Macias, journalist, essayist, editor, poet, and author, delivers [... more]
$15.50
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Foundation's Fear (Second Foundation Trilogy)
Amazon.com Review: This is the first installment of The Second Foundation Trilogy, based on Isaac Asimov's famous Foundation series. Acclaimed hard science fiction writers Gregory Benford, David Brin, and Greg Bear will each produce a work for the [... more]
$23.00
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Becoming Your Own Critique Partner
An Excellent and Indispensable Tool For All Writers: Checking out the Internet as well as various other sources I notice there is a great deal of excellent advice on writing techniques. Unfortunately, many aspiring writers as well as experienced ones [... more]
$14.99
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