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How to Write a Children's Book - The Writer's Toolkit

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About How to Write a Children's Book - The Writer's Toolkit

Introduction

Word Choice

Word Echo-Part 1

Word Echo-Part 2

Word Choice for Smooth Transitions

Simple Sentences

The Power of a Comma

Changing Word Order in a Sentence

Changing the Stress & Rhythm of a Sentence

Parallelism

Readers’ Expectations: The Known-New Pattern

Readers’ Expectations & Sentence Focus

Sentence Order

Actions & Reactions

The Link

Signaling the Beginning of a Scene

Signaling the End of a Scene

Signaling the End of a Story

Conclusion

What You Will Learn?

  • There are plenty of courses on “how to write a children’s book.” So why one more? Because this course offers something the others don’t: A close look at:.
  •  This course is for Advanced. It is the course you need when you’re editing your first draft, and later, when you’re fine-tuning your story to make it the best it can be..
  •  We’ll study techniques used in the best children’s picture storybooks, so you can apply them to your own writing..
  •  When you have finished this course, you will have a draft of a children’s story that is markedly better than the one you started with!.