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Writing Life - Writing for Children Part 2
Preface
Writing Life - Writing for Children
Free Sample 1
Free Sample 2
Free Sample 3
Introduction
A word about books for children
Kinds of books
How do you find them?
Who to read?
About grammar and dictionaries
MODULE 6: Readers – again, always
What kind of book are you writing?
Read aloud … read alone?
WRITING EXERCISE 22
Reading surprises
Subversive writing for children
Reading levels
WRITING EXERCISE 23
Concepts and reading levels
WRITING EXERCISE 24
Picture books for older children
Read first … then fly
MODULE 7: Landscape of dreams
Landscape
The restraint of description
A sense of place
WRITING EXERCISE 25
Memory and place
WRITING EXERCISE 26
Lifeways
Endless notes
Colours - WRITING EXERCISE 27
Sounds, scents, touch - WRITING EXERCISE 28
On being influenced ...
MODULE 8: Beginnings – the power of words
First words
WRITING EXERCISE 29
WRITING EXERCISE 30
A sense of place
Setting their scene
WRITING EXERCISE 31
Index card method
Fragments
Listening
Dialogue
Describing how the character spoke
Keeping the reader
WRITING EXERCISE 32
MODULE 9: Middles: big, middling and spreading
A different kind of reading
Profile your reader
WRITING EXERCISE 33
Stereotypes
WRITING EXERCISE 34
WRITING EXERCISE 35
WRITING EXERCISE 36
WRITING EXERCISE 37
Backwards and forwards, backwards and forwards
Humour
Keep the plot moving
Controversy and criticism
MODULE 10: Endings – such sweet sorrow
Reaching the end … at last
WRITING EXERCISE 38
Technical terms
Reading your own words
WRITING EXERCISE 39
How to achieve the cutting
Some endings are better than others
WRITING EXERCISE 40
Character growth
Why am I doing this to myself?
Finishing and submitting
Revision
Some encouragement to end with …
Who to read, who to learn from?
WRITING EXERCISE 41
Summing up
WRITING EXERCISE 32
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