When writing a middle grade story, it’s important to use the same practices as when writing a novel. The first thing is to write a detailed outline. Along with the outline, creating unique characters is important.
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Writing Dialogue? Try These 5 Top Tips
A key factor of dialogue is the relationships between the characters.
How a boy talks to his brother will be different than how he talks to a girl, especially one he likes.
Creating Your Main Character – Hit a Home Run
Contributed by Linda Wilson Bases to cover while creating your main character: First Base: Make your character interesting Give your character a flaw A flaw, according to Webster’s, is “an imperfection or weakness and esp. one that detracts from the whole or hinders effectiveness.” A flaw, according to Kristen Kieffer, is a problem your character…
Ghostwriting and Freelance Writing Scam Alert
With the world in crisis there are scammers out there targeting ghostwriters and probably editors. So, be on guard.
Self-Publishing a Book – Steps to Upload Your Book for Publishing
You have your book’s print-ready file in hand. Now it’s time to upload it to a retailer or aggregator for distribution and sales. But, how do you go about doing this?
Self-Publishing a Book – End of the Formatting Process
I’ve written about my process of self-publishing a book. This is the third instructional article in a four-part series. While I’ve ghostwritten a lot of children’s books, I haven’t followed the process after that. I have done some illustration reviews, but usually, I hand the polished manuscript to my client with a list of illustrators…
Self-Publishing a Book – The ISBN, the Barcode, and the LCCN
Self-publishing a book may seem overwhelming, but if you create steps, it will go smoothly. This article discusses the ISBN, the barcode, and the LCCN. All things you’ll need for your book.
Self-Publishing a Book – Formatting
As a children’s book ghostwriter, I provide my clients with a list of reasonably priced illustrators, but I just couldn’t find book formatters. Or, more likely, I didn’t understand the process. I’ve read a lot of self-publishing articles and they explain where to find an illustrator but NOT ONE OF THEM went into getting your…
3 Tips to Help Launch Your Writing Career
Your story begins with an idea, an idea that has come from one of your own experiences or someone’s experience that you’ve observed. To write your story, you first need to do your homework: read up on writing for children, read other authors’ books in your genre, take courses, go to conferences, join a critique…
When Is It Time to Let Your Manuscript Fly?
A manuscript if a funny thing. It seems it can be revised, edited, and proofed indefinitely.Then you get to a point where you think it might finally be there. But, as every good writer should do, you go over it yet again.