Nov
09
please help with writing a childrens book?
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fustrated101 questioned:
ok so i am a senior in high school. i have to write a 10 page childrens book. i was hoping to do it on something like a kids first day of school. but anything is fantastic at this point.
ok so i am a senior in high school. i have to write a 10 page childrens book. i was hoping to do it on something like a kids first day of school. but anything is fantastic at this point.
im wraping up the end of the year and really can not find the time to write it. can someone that would really like to help a senior graduate please help me in writing this.
i thank you sooo much in advance.
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10 pages is not long. You do not mention what age children’s book, so why not do a (mostly) picture book? Write a small poem about the first day of kindergarten and illustrate it with either colorful drawings or with collages from magazines, et al.?
One or two lines of poetry per page (rhyming couplets would be excellent) means you only have to write a twenty-line poem.
Its your work and I guess its your homework! Just get on with it instead of spending your time asking stupid questions over the net! You got the base of your tale in “kids first day at school” so just get on with doing and outline and then writing about what happend. Youll have time if you take yourself time!
A few tips:
With only 10 pages you need to be brutal candid and small in everything you write. Concentrate your tale.
A excellent tale is about having people being active and making decisions, decisions that give them some consekvenses. So for a excellent 10 page tale I would recomend one critical (tale dependent choice) and some minor decisions. Just ading information want do. Let your main caracter make decisions and tell the reader how vital that choice is for him or her (a choice could be what to have for lunch or to choice who to sit next to for example).
KIPS (Keep It Personal, Stupid) rules. Let the tale be about one kid (or the teacher or whatever) and let the reader follow him or her.
Before you start, always do an outline and work with it.
Johan.