I ingested Chapter Four this morning and the gist is: don’t be scared of starting to write. It also addresses the question how to start writing. I’ve had the terror, I’m sure most writers have had it. You stare at that pristine white page on your computer screen or in your notebook and you think to [...]
A quick post before starting my working day in Real Life: In Chapter 3 in Writing Bestselling Children’s Books Gordy highlights the necessity of knowing the age-group you are writing for. These can be broken down into: Picture Books Beginners Readers Young Fiction Older and Teen / YA Fiction Best way to figure out what [...]
Hah! did you notice me fail wonderfully yesterday in my resolve to post each day? I of course do have an excuse but you know, no excuses here, just forging ahead. So, second chapter of Gordy’s book Writing Bestselling Children’s Books is The Uses of Enchantment. The core concept here is that writing for kids [...]
I popped by Waterstone’s recently and bought a copy of Writing Bestselling Children’s Books by Alexander Gordon Smith (author of various succesful and crazy-mad stories for kids). I flipped through it during lunch today and thought about something that my friend Kaz Mahoney is doing over on her blog – and that is to blog [...]
