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What Sits Beyond the Reach of Language

Writing for Adults BlogBy Kelli PaniqueApril 7, 2020Leave a comment

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > It’s National Poetry Month, and with the chaos of coronavirus that’s unsettled us and our need to stay as close to home as possible, now, more than ever, is the perfect time…

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Children’s Poetry for Magazines

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueApril 2, 20201 Comment

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > 6 Hot Tips Finding a market for poetry can be tough. It’s not that children don’t enjoy poetry. In fact, many young children love verse. The even meter and the rhyme make…

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Imagery in Narrative Nonfiction

Writing for Adults BlogBy Kelli PaniqueMarch 31, 20201 Comment

Narrative nonfiction writers need to describe people, places, objects, and events in imaginative but also accurate ways. Enter imagery. Follow these 3 tips.

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Top Three Narrative Nonfiction Missteps

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueMarch 26, 20202 Comments

Narrative nonfiction is popular with kids, teachers, and publishers. Here are the top three missteps to avoid when writing narrative nonfiction.

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The Writer’s Voice and Narrative Nonfiction | IFW

Writing for Adults BlogBy Kelli PaniqueMarch 24, 2020Leave a comment

The content of your piece is the what of your writing. How you say it is the voice. Let’s talk about how to develop your author voice in your work.

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Picture Book Biographies

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueMarch 19, 2020Leave a comment

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > One of the most common forms of narrative nonfiction is the biography. Biographies can be found in long form novels, long-form highly illustrated books, chapter books, early readers and picture books. Picture…

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Using Creative Nonfiction Techniques in a Memoir | IFW

Writing for Adults BlogBy Kelli PaniqueMarch 17, 2020Leave a comment

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > “Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.” Those familiar opening lines from…

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Narrative Nonfiction and Magazines

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueMarch 12, 2020Leave a comment

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > If you’re interested in trying your hand at narrative nonfiction, there are options beyond massively researched full-length books. Some children’s magazines buy narrative nonfiction in the form of biographical sketches, profiles of…

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Using Quotes in Narrative Nonfiction

Writing for Adults BlogBy Kelli PaniqueMarch 10, 20202 Comments

IFW Instructor Victoria Sherrow shares how to effectively use quotes from historical figures and experts when writing narrative nonfiction novels and articles.

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Narrative Nonfiction

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueMarch 5, 2020Leave a comment

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Melissa Stewart, writer and nonfiction evangelist, fills her Twitter feed with books and bits to help writers and buyers better understand nonfiction. She’s made nonfiction her life. And she explains that nonfiction…

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The Appeal of Narrative Nonfiction

Writing for Adults BlogBy Kelli PaniqueMarch 3, 2020Leave a comment

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > “Just the facts, ma’am.” These oft-repeated words are associated with Sergeant Joe Friday, a character in the 1950s TV police drama “Dragnet.” Friday’s actual words were “All we want are the facts,”…

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The Perils of Picture Books

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueFebruary 27, 2020Leave a comment

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Writing a publishable picture book is hard. It simply is. The competition is incredible. And your book must do so many things well. It needs to sing. It needs to speak to…

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Verb-Perfect: 7 Tips to Fuel Your Writing

Writing for Adults BlogBy Kelli PaniqueFebruary 25, 2020Leave a comment

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Perfecting a manuscript means scrutinizing every sentence. Does each word deserve a place in the sentence? Does the sentence convey the action, viewpoint, meaning, and mood you intended? Verbs play a key…

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How Do I Tell Where I Fail?

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueFebruary 20, 2020Leave a comment

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > According to Dr. David Dunning, a psychology professor at Cornell, we are not good judges of our own competency. In other words, we aren’t very skilled at telling if we’re good at…

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The “Feel” of Your Writing

Writing for Adults BlogBy Kelli PaniqueFebruary 18, 2020Leave a comment

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > “Everything is in the tone.”—Sherwood Anderson For a well-polished manuscript, make sure you use tone and mood effectively. Tone in fiction refers to an author’s attitude toward the characters and events in…

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Picking the Right Word

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueFebruary 13, 2020Leave a comment

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Polishing a manuscript involves both big picture corrections, such as plot issues or motivation issues for your characters, and incredibly small, picky bits where you’re really bringing out the shine in each…

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Time for a Sound Check?

Writing for Adults BlogBy Kelli PaniqueFebruary 11, 2020Leave a comment

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > “Hearing” your manuscript with a reader’s ear As you polish your manuscript, you will likely review it numerous times, looking for ways to improve the content, style, and presentation. Some experts suggest…

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Perfectionism Alert

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueFebruary 6, 2020Leave a comment

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > How Polished Does It Need to Be? In the many views about the importance of polishing a manuscript, there are two opposite ends of the spectrum. First are the writers whose work…

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Polishing the Point of View

Writing for Adults BlogBy Kelli PaniqueFebruary 4, 20201 Comment

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Drawing readers closer to your character Fiction offers readers the chance to “live” in another world while making emotional connections with characters. Award-winning author Nancy Kress says, “It lets us experience the…

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Dialogue and Plot

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueJanuary 30, 20201 Comment

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Dialogue serves a number of purposes in a book or story. It brings immediacy since dialogue takes place at a specific moment in time, thus bringing the reader into the story. It…

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