5 Ways Writers Can Prep for 2025 Goal Setting
Let’s harness our optimism for the blank slate before us and prepare for our 2025 Goal Setting just for writers.
4 Ways Writers Can Positively Deal with Constructive Criticism
Facebook Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Creatives can be thin-skinned. We love what we do, and we invest a lot of ourselves in the work we create. As a result, criticism of our work can feel like criticism of ourselves. And the more personal…
Rejection and Reflection for Writers
Facebook Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > The best way to completely avoid rejection in the submission process is never to submit. That’s also the way to avoid publication. Some writers do a lot to avoid rejection. I, for example, primarily do work-for-hire projects, so…
Happy Holiday Writing for Children’s Writers
Facebook Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Holiday time is officially here and with it holiday writing. In fact, we’ve already been through a few big holidays with Thanksgiving and Halloween. During fall and winter, the holidays come fast and varied. And no matter what…
8 Ways to Improve Your Nonfiction Articles
Facebook Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Nonfiction article writing suffers from bad press. Beginning writers think it’s probably boring, and that kids would rather not read it. Interestingly enough, that isn’t true at all. Many kids love nonfiction. For some, it’s preferred over fiction.…
Riveting Resolutions: 10 Effective Article Endings
Facebook Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Writing an effective nonfiction article ending is one of the most easily overlooked aspects of crafting such a project. Many writers simply want to stop writing when they’ve shared all the information they gathered. And you can find…
Learn from Success: 10 Engaging Article Openings
Facebook Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > One of the best ways to learn what makes an engaging article opening is to look at great nonfiction pieces that have been published in magazines and talk about what made them so good. With that in mind,…
The Surprising Benefits of Writing a Nonfiction Article
Facebook Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Most children’s writers gravitate toward fiction. In fact, most people who think about writing anything for children are thinking about picture books with bright illustrations, rhyming text, and whimsical stories (usually involving talking animals), but there is a…
Dealing with Submissions Failure
Facebook Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > I like to think happy thoughts when it comes to writing. I’ll write something. People will love it. Birds will sing. And sometimes it happens exactly like that. This is especially true if I’ve worked hard on my…
