Different age groups call for different
writing styles and construction - you will study this difference
as part of your course. You will explore the delicate business
of distilling ideas and experience into potent stories for
children. You will learn vocabulary and story construction
for each age group; you will study the importance and skills
of natural dialogue, and you will learn how to hold children's
interest, how to make them laugh, how to create images for
them, and how to make them identify with your storytelling.
Plotting, imagery, creating characters
that are real to children - these are some of the other
skills you will study. Your tutor will show you how to adapt
your style from picture book for the very young to science
fiction for the teenager.
Writing for children takes many forms
and provides many with an enjoyable living and lucrative
hobby. The range of markets varies widely from first readers
to teenagers' novels, from picture books to scripts, from
pop-up book to plays.
You will be shown how to find the markets
for all types of children's writing.
The rewards in this wonderfully creative
field of writing, besides financial, are the feelings that
you will get when a young person tells you how much he or
she really enjoyed reading your story, a sense of pride
in the knowledge that you have created something that your
young reader will never forget.
This course can be taken by mail or email
Writing
For Children - Course Syllabus
