With over 100 published books and magazine articles, Jan delivers first-hand knowledge on how to sharpen, submit, and market your writing. Jan’s articles explore inevitable writing struggles and offers tireless strategies and techniques to support you in reaching your writing goals.
The perfect ending is more than the point where you stop writing. It’s where everything you’ve written before pays off. Today, let’s revise and stick the landing.
When writing for children, one of the toughest parts of any piece to write is the middle. Today we look at four revision tools to help you tackle the messy middle.
A big picture revision is to make sure your writing, whether fiction or nonfiction, engages the reader at the beginning, keeps the reader through the middle, and offers a satisfying ending.
Establishing an emotional connection is an important element to consider in writing a picture book. Jan Fields share picture books that have nailed emotional truth in their stories.
In picture book writing, getting started can be the hardest part. Jan Fields shares her go-to writing exercises for getting the writing motor revved up raring to go!
Picture books are probably the most easily identified of all the children’s books. So, let’s answer four burning questions today about writing picture books.
Let’s look at the three most frequently asked questions about writing a children’s book in today’s market with answers from author Jan Fields.
For such tiny books, picture books are complex creations. Today, Jan Fields shares essential tips for writing children’s picture books that delight kids and adults alike!
Inspiration for writing lights a fire under writers and makes everything about the process easier and smoother. Let’s make inspiration work for you!
Feedback for writers is one of the most important tools needed to get from first draft to polished, submission-ready manuscript.
Writers are often asked where they get their inspiration. The key to getting inspiration for writing is less about finding it and more about recognizing it.
Having trouble finding inspiration to write? Jan Fields shares how to get inspiration and motivation to start writing. Dive in now!
The best writing goals are inspiring, flexible, and clear. Let’s talk about goals for writers and inspired goal setting tips for writers for the upcoming year.
Everyone benefits from being able to communicate clearly and professionally through writing. So, it’s worthwhile to ask the question: How can an online writing class help a homeschool student who isn’t thinking about publishing as a future interest?
Hope doesn’t often produce a habit, action does. Let’s talk about how to build your writing habit.
Homeschooling families often make use of online courses to dive into topics of specific interest. Art, engineering, and science courses are frequent options, but writing courses also offer unique opportunities.
How do you handle character transformation in series books where readers fall in love with characters and expect to meet those same people, sometimes exactly the same people, book after book?
Each book in a series must somehow orient the reader to what is going on in the series overall and the specific book in hand. Today, we look at three ways to orient your reader.
Trade publishing recognizes a simple truth: when selling a series to individual readers, the first book gets the most readers. Jan Fields shares tips for increasing your series odds.
All series books have a basic premise, something that links the books through time. Today we talk about how a good premise is interesting but also has repeatability.
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