7 Tips On How To Locate Junior Editors for Your Children'sBook

Written by Catherine Franz


Are you writing a children’s book -- nonfiction or fiction?

Here are a few tips on how to test your almost final draft. And test your manuscript onrepparttar same audience that is going to readrepparttar 128902 book. Make them junior editors.

1. Talk with a teacher at your local school that has a classroom of your book’s age group. Ask for permission to come in and readrepparttar 128903 book torepparttar 128904 class. Video taperepparttar 128905 children’s reactions or ask two people to accompany you to recordrepparttar 128906 children’s reactions to direct parts ofrepparttar 128907 story. Give each ofrepparttar 128908 recorders a copy ofrepparttar 128909 manuscript that they can write comments on inrepparttar 128910 exact location ofrepparttar 128911 children’s reaction. They can make smiley faces of J L to save time.

2. Or maybe askrepparttar 128912 teacher if she is willing to giverepparttar 128913 manuscript to students to read as an assignment then ask forrepparttar 128914 children’s opinion. Have a class discussion aboutrepparttar 128915 book afterwards with you present.

3. Ifrepparttar 128916 teacher doesn’t like any of these, let her make some suggestions.

Write Strategy: Think, Believe, Attack

Written by Shery Ma Belle Arrieta-Russ


Think of writing like karate...it's about DISCIPLINE.

Writing, like other forms of art, work or talent, requires discipline. It won't ever be enough that you say to yourself that you are a writer. Only when you write and write with discipline can you call yourself one. Before you can earn a black belt in karate, you have to dedicate yourself, practice and instill discipline in yourself to learnrepparttar moves and techniques.

The same goes for writing. Don't just read books. Devour them. Ray Bradbury, author of Zen inrepparttar 128901 Art of Writing, suggests books of essays, poetry, short stories, novels and even comic strips. Not only does he suggest that you read authors who writerepparttar 128902 way you hope to write, but "also read those who do not think as you think or write as you want to write, and so be stimulated in directions you might not take for many years." He continues, "don't letrepparttar 128903 snobbery of others prevent you from reading Kipling, say, while no one else is reading him."

Learn to differentiate between good writing and bad writing. Make time to write. Write even though you're in a bad mood. Put yourself in a routine. Integrate writing into your life. The goal is not to make writing dominate your life, but to make it fit in your life. Julia Cameron, in her book The Right to Write, sums it best: "Rather than being a private affair cordoned off from life asrepparttar 128904 rest ofrepparttar 128905 world lives it, writing might profitably be seen as an activity best embedded in life, not divorced from it."

Believe that EVERYONE HAS A STORY -- including you.

Extraordinary things happen to ordinary people. As a writer, your job is to capture as many of these things and write them down, weave stories, and create characters that jump out ofrepparttar 128906 pages of your notebook. Don't let anything escape your writer's eye, not evenrepparttar 128907 wayrepparttar 128908 old man tries to subtly pick his nose orrepparttar 128909 way an old lady fluffs her hair in a diner. What you can't use today, you can use tomorrow. Store these in your memory or jot them down in your notebook.

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