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Explaining STEM and STEAM

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueApril 22, 2021Leave 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’ve spent much time reading guidelines recently, especially those for educational publishers, you’ve almost certainly run across one of two acronyms related to nonfiction: STEM or STEAM. STEM stands for science,…

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Narrative Nonfiction: Finding the Lesser Known Story | IFW

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueApril 8, 2021Leave 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 new writers whose greatest goal is writing fiction shy away from writing nonfiction. They recall texts read as children without pleasure and don’t want to create material like that. But nonfiction…

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How To Find Hot Nonfiction Topics

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueApril 1, 2021Leave a comment

The popularity of nonfiction makes it worth an author’s time to investigate. Here’s how to find hot nonfiction topics that publishers are looking for.

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Cover and Query Letters

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueJanuary 28, 2021Leave 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 vast majority of submissions you will make during your publishing career will include a letter. If the letter travels on its own, it is a query letter and must carry a…

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Finding Markets in Difficult Times

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueNovember 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 > As with virtually every industry, publishing has faced new challenges during the pandemic, even though book sales have stayed strong (especially in children’s books). The issues aren’t with lack of sales, but…

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You Only Need One

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueNovember 12, 20201 Comment

The whole publishing process is a journey up a mountain after the path has been washed out. Remember, it only takes one editor to connect with your work.

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Structure in Narrative Nonfiction Articles | IFW

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueAugust 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 > Most nonfiction can be roughly divided into two types: expository or narrative. Expository nonfiction is mainly concerned with conveying information. The most common structure of expository nonfiction consists of breaking the main…

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Beginning, Middle, and End

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueAugust 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 > What Do We Need from Each? Although the structure of both fiction and nonfiction can be broken down and described in different ways, one simple method is simply to think of your…

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Alicia Klepeis

Published GradsBy Maggie McCloskeyJune 19, 2020Leave a comment

Little Gestalten

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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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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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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: 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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Checking for Ruts

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueDecember 26, 2019Leave 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 things that keeps writing fresh for me is trying new things. I can always tell when I’m in a rut, because my excitement for the writing wanes. Whenever I…

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The End

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueDecember 19, 2019Leave a comment

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > As I type this, I’m minutes away from having finished my last pass of revisions on a novel. I sent it off to the editor. I know, of course, that I’m not…

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The End

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueDecember 19, 20191 Comment

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > As I type this, I’m minutes away from having finished my last pass of revisions on a novel. I sent it off to the editor. I know, of course, that I’m not…

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Looking Back on Your Year

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueDecember 12, 2019Leave a comment

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Are We There Yet? One of the best things to consider when looking over a year of writing is what we’ve learned. As writers, we’re always learning new things. It’s one of…

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