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61820 ICL Do I Have To Have a Plot

Do I Have To Have a Plot?

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueJune 18, 20201 Comment

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Some writers hesitate to talk about plot because they believe it equates to preplanning their stories. For the organic or seat-of-the-pants writer, pre-planning simply doesn’t work for the way story unfolds in…

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From Zero To Sixty

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueJune 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 > One of the hardest parts of creating a strong plot that grabs the reader is knowing where to start. If you start too soon, you risk boring the reader with a lot…

6420 ICL The Dance of Plot and Theme

The Dance of Plot and Theme

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueJune 4, 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 > Many writers struggle early in their writing journal when they try to sort out the difference between plot and theme. In fact, the two work in tandem to create a story but…

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Worldbuilding When You Can’t Go Out in the World | IFW

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueMay 28, 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 > Because many of the books I write are created based on specs crafted by the publisher, I sometimes have to write about places I’ve never visited. This can make it difficult to…

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Writing in Difficult Times

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueMay 21, 20201 Comment

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > During this month of exploring the topic of world building, it seems appropriate to talk about the world building we’ve all been doing in real life during this pandemic. Just as when…

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Worldbuilding: Dressing the Set

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueMay 14, 20201 Comment

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > For movies and television shows, a huge amount of time is put into set dressing, adding all the tiny details that make the world you see on the screen feel real. Set…

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Introduction to Worldbuilding

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueMay 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 > Worldbuilding isn’t just for fantasy writers. Every character lives somewhere and travels through the world. When you think about the floor plan for a character’s home or school, you’re worldbuilding. When you…

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Words As Art

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueApril 30, 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 is both a craft, which is learned and honed over time, and an art, which is unique and adds to our collective culture. And within the realm of writing, we generally…

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Poetry Publication Options

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueApril 23, 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 > For the last couple weeks, we’ve looked at the value of writing poetry simply to write it with no concern toward publication. But as writers, most of us do want to be…

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5 Poetry Practice Playtime Activities

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueApril 9, 20202 Comments

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Poetry, like any art form, is improved with practice. The more you do it, the better you’ll become at it. But there is something very special about poetry: the more you practice…

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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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Dialogue: Don’t Forget the World!

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueJanuary 23, 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 > For each scene of your story, you need to make two choices. First, what will be exchanged between characters? This is the dialogue half of the scene. The second? Decide where the…

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