How To Write A Children’S Book – The Writer’S Toolkit

Published 5/2023
MP4 | Video: h264, 1280×720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz
Language: English | Size: 220.36 MB | Duration: 0h 45m
By award-winning author of more than 150 children’s books. Learn writing techniques used by the best books in the genre.

Free Download What you’ll learn
You’ll learn how to choose words to give your story meaning and cohesion. (Cohesion is the "glue" that holds the story together.)
You’ll learn how to change sentence structure to emphasize the information that’s important.
You’ll learn how to change sentence structure to ensure that sentences flow easily from one to another.
You’ll learn how to begin a scene, how to end it, and how to create the Beats of action-reaction that make up the scene.
Requirements
It will be helpful if you have already written a rough draft of a non-rhyming children’s picture storybook in the English language, because exercises will relate to your own story.
Description
My name is Eve Heidi Bine-Stock. I am an award-winning author of more than 150 children’s picture books. I am excited to offer this course to share with you important writing techniques that will make your own book shine!There are plenty of courses on “how to write a children’s book.” So why one more? Because this course offers something the others don’t: A close look at word choice; word placement; sentence structure; sentence flow; and scene building. This is the course you need when you’re editing your first draft, and later, when you’re fine-tuning your story to make it the best it can be.This course is for Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced children’s book writers. It will be helpful if you have already written a rough draft of a children’s book, because the assignments relate to your own story.In this course, you’ll learn how to choose words to give your story meaning and cohesion. (Cohesion is the “glue” that holds the story together.)You’ll learn how to change sentence structure to emphasize the information that’s important; and to ensure that sentences flow easily from one to another.And you’ll learn how to begin a scene, how to end it, and how to create the Beats of action-reaction that make up the scene.We’ll study techniques used in the best children’s picture storybooks, so you can apply them to your own writing!
Overview
Section 1: Introduction
Lecture 1 Introduction
Section 2: Word Choice & Word Echoes
Lecture 2 Word Choice
Lecture 3 Word Echo – Part 1
Lecture 4 Word Echo – Part 2
Lecture 5 Word Choice for Smooth Transitions
Section 3: Sentences: Focus & Rhythm
Lecture 6 Simple Sentences
Lecture 7 The Power of a Comma
Lecture 8 Changing Word Order in a Sentence
Lecture 9 Words That Change the Stress & Rhythm of a Sentence
Section 4: Sentences: Cohesion
Lecture 10 Parallelism
Lecture 11 Readers’ Expectations: The Known-New Pattern
Lecture 12 Readers’ Expectations & Sentence Focus
Lecture 13 Sentence Order
Section 5: Actions & Reactions, and Scenes
Lecture 14 Actions & Reactions
Lecture 15 The Link
Lecture 16 Signaling the Beginning of a Scene
Lecture 17 Signaling the End of a Scene
Lecture 18 Signaling the End of a Story
Section 6: Conclusion
Lecture 19 Conclusion
Lecture 20 Bonus Section
Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced Children’s Book Writers

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