How will you ask for sale? If you're selling your writing, then send out novel and non-fiction proposals, or proposals for magazine articles.

Keep in mind that "Ask for sale" means ask person who can buy your product to buy it. I approached editors at publishing houses who could buy my work. I didn't approach agents. As handy as literary agents are, an agent can't buy.

No matter what product you're selling, from apricots to zebras, you must ask person and/ or company with cash to buy your product.

It's worth mentioning here that you don’t need to follow any particular rules when you're asking for sale. For example, most writing books will tell you that to sell a novel you must write complete novel, then write partial, then get an agent and then wait while agent sells book. You can follow someone else's rules if you want to. Or you can choose your own route. Do what you intuitively feel is right for you.

=> Three: If it's not working, get feedback from others

You've set your deadline, you've asked for sale repeatedly, but no one's buying.

At this point, I need to tell you that everyone who's ever followed this process for selling their writing has sold their writing before deadline. So from long experience I know that this process works. If this process hasn’t worked for you it means that somewhere you've bumped into a wall, but don't see that is a wall.

You need feedback. Find someone's who's doing what you want to do, and ask them for help. You may need to pay for it, but it will be money well spent, because they'll be able to put you on right track. Don't ask for help from people who have never done what you want to do. If they haven’t done it, they may think they know how it’s done, but they don’t.

After you get your feedback, set yourself another deadline, and then ask for sale until you make sale. Try this simple process: it works.

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Does your sister have a talent for jumping rope and blowing bubbles, with purple bubble gum? Maybe heroine for your next book could do same.Is their a kid in your neighborhood that is always getting into trouble? Hmm, do you think that creator of Dennis Mennis might have known one?

You can use your family and friend’s talents and their physical characteristics to come up with tons of characters. One hint though- if you choose to make Uncle Charlie a slug or Aunt Emma a rhinoceros, keep it to yourself. They may not be thrilled with their induction into literary history.

Inspiration is all around you, waiting for you to reach out and grab for your next storyline or character. Use stories from news, jokes that your neighbors tell you, quirky things that your dog Buster does in morning.

One final word - stop criticizing what you have written down. In these first stages, no one cares if you have misspelled words or if your grammar isn’t perfect. Just write. The rest will follow, after your story is done.

Caterina Christakos is author of How to Write a Children’s Book in 30 Days or Less. For more writing tips please go to http://www.howtowriteachildrensbook.com