WRITING FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS by Marion Crook
Available as an ebook on September 20, 2016 and in paperback in October 2016!
In addition to the
expert advice author Marion Crook shared in earlier editions of Writing for
Children and Young Adults, in this vibrant new edition, Crook explains some
of the nuances and choices about the writing world online.
As well, she revisits
the fundamentals of writing: establishing character, creating lively dialogue
and developing plot with updated worksheets and examples. This edition shows
the writer how to begin a story, plan plot, develop and hone the work for an
agent or publisher, and how to make the crucial submission for a book that
agents want to represent and publishers want to buy!
Writing for Children and
Young Adults helps you create the
manuscript that sells!
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Telling stories is an ancient skill practiced in public at community festivals, around the campfire, in religious rites, and in private at the cradles of the young. It involves an innate ability to pick dramatic words in a way that paints a mental picture and gives the tale a sense of pace and tension. The story becomes important, even if only for a short time, to the one who hears it or reads it. It is a way of communicating excitement and the optimistic belief that the world is a remarkable and knowable place. Many writers have an enthusiastic following of readers who want to share in their adventures.
Telling stories is also an age-old method of communicating morality lessons to ensure that a point of view spreads in a palatable manner. Writing can be a way of instructing, advising, and guiding others. Most children don’t want to read stories that are written with such motivation, but many writers believe that teaching justifies their stories. A a “moral” story isn’t necessarily a good story. The danger in writing morality tales is that the writer may ignore the needs of children and write from behind a screen of righteousness that thinly hides a lecture. As you may remember from your school years, most of us hate lectures.
Stories also offer an illusion of control as if the world can be controlled by the way we interpret it. Most writers offer stories that have beginnings, middles, and ends describing life as neatly compacted and logical. Perhaps this illusion of controlled life gives readers a sense of order.
You want to write a book that will delight many years later. You want your book to be the best you can produce, written in a style that is uniquely yours, perhaps using ideas that have never been written about or in a format that has never been tried. Writing is about creating.
About the Author:
Marion Crook has written
many books for young adult and middle-grade readers. Here, she offers advice on
writing, publishing, and marketing. Crook’s background in child development
education as a nurse and her Ph.D. in education give her solid knowledge, but
she maintains that a keen observation of people, places, and events can be the
author’s most useful tool. An experienced teacher and writer, she gives her
readers clear and practical tips, with humor and obvious understanding of what
it’s like to write and publish.Find the Author
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