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Why A Contest? Here are 7 Lucky Reasons

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueApril 19, 20181 Comment

A writing contest doesn’t seem to be part of that straight line of publication. So why would you enter one? Well, here are seven lucky reasons.

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Tighten Up the Weakest Link for a Contest Win | IFW

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueApril 12, 2018Leave a comment

Facebook Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Judging a contest is an interesting activity because it happens in layers. The first layer is simply removing from consideration all the entries that are not appropriate at all (prose memoirs sent to a poetry contest for young…

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Launching a Story From a Title

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueMarch 29, 2018Leave 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 hard to develop a story when you can’t get started. Though there are many ways into story creation, one that isn’t considered as often is the title. Titles are often tacked…

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Story Development and Revision

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueMarch 22, 20184 Comments

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > For many writers, especially newer writers, revision is mainly a step for fixing typing errors, spelling errors and grammar mistakes. Some may have a checklist of things to look for such as…

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Story Development: What’s At Stake?

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueMarch 15, 2018Leave 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 important questions to consider when developing a story is “what is going to be at stake for my main character?” By this, we mean, “What is the cost…

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Playing Fair with Plot

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueMarch 8, 2018Leave a comment

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Good stories have lots of moving parts, and it can be challenging to get all the parts to come together in a way that works. Many writers understand that a good plot…

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Piece by Piece

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueMarch 1, 2018Leave 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 times, the compelling urge to write, to create, to make something that reflects our skills and creativity, brings us to the blank page (or blank computer screen) with the intention of…

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What’s the Rush?

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueFebruary 22, 2018Leave a comment

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > When it comes to writing and submissions, there is such a thing as too soon. In fact, the number one mistake writers make in the area of submitting their work is moving…

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What’s Your “Elevator Pitch”?

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueFebruary 15, 2018Leave a comment

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Query letters, cover letters, pitches, and proposals all have one very important thing in common. They all require an author be able to describe the story in few words. This is sometimes…

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Projecting Confidence Without Being Obnoxious | IFW

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueFebruary 8, 2018Leave a comment

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Your first contact with a publisher or agent does a lot of things. It presents the project you’ve created (or wish to create) in a clear, concise, lively manner. That’s hard enough,…

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Submissions: Because Publishers Rarely Come to You

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueFebruary 1, 20181 Comment

Facebook Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > If you ask almost any writer what parts of the process they like least, submissions will pop up somewhere in the list. We worry about whether we’re doing it right. We struggle to find all the information we…

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Get Out of Your Comfort Zone: Try Nonfiction | IFW

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueJanuary 25, 2018Leave a comment

Facebook Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Get Out of Your Comfort Zone: Try Nonfiction For most people considering children’s writing for a career (or even for a hobby), the type of writing that comes to mind is fiction. For many of us, the picture…

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A Raven and A Writing Desk

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueJanuary 18, 2018Leave 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 is a raven like a writing desk?” When Lewis Carroll first wrote the riddle about the raven and the writing desk, he didn’t have an answer. It was simply a riddle…

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Using an Object for Inspiration

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueJanuary 11, 20183 Comments

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Over the holidays, as I was putting out the holiday decorations, my daughter and I took time to talk about some the ornaments and other well-loved decorations. Some decorations brought back memories…

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Must I Be Unique?

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueJanuary 4, 2018Leave 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 crippling things a writer can do in the early stage of any book is worry about whether your story (or something like it) has been done before. First,…

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How to Achieve Success in 2018

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueDecember 21, 2017Leave a comment

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > The new year will be upon us soon, and it’s a good time to make plans to increase our chances of publication success in 2018. Now, it helps to know what you…

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How to Title Your Book

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueDecember 14, 20171 Comment

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalg > Coming up with a title for your work in progress can be easy or really hard. Sometimes the title comes to you early, and you just always know what you want to…

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Copyright and You

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueNovember 23, 20173 Comments

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Copyright, because it is an area of law, can be scary for writers, and many new writers worry about their work being stolen; they want to know what to do to protect…

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Compare and Despair or Mentor Texts? – Institute for Writers

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueNovember 9, 2017Leave a comment

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > The Competition Some book publishers are now specifically asking writers to look at competing books when sending in manuscript submissions, partial submissions, queries, or book proposals. And this request can seem overwhelming…

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When the Ideas Won’t Come

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueNovember 2, 2017Leave 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 questions writers tend to be asked a lot is “where do you get your ideas?” Of course, two other questions are “can you read something for me?” and “can…

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