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,…
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…
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…
Facebook Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Certain things are true of all professional literary agents. If they are good at their job, they function as matchmakers between publishable manuscripts and the publishers who need them. Beyond that, they handle details of contracts and manage…
Facebook Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Let’s suppose you’ve written a book, and you’d like to get an agent. You want access to the kinds of publishers you simply cannot reach without an agent. Plus, you want the contract skills that agents tend to bring…
Facebook Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Creating a book proposal can seem daunting. After all, it feels like a high stakes creation. It draws on skills we aren’t always comfortable with. Skills like talking about yourself and talking about your book can make even…
Facebook Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > In the publishing world, pitching used to mean trying to talk an agent or editor into taking on your picture book, sight unseen. When pitching your picture book there were elevator pitches, which were short bursts of descriptions…
Facebook Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Writing nonfiction for very young children, whether you’re writing for children’s magazines, or writing picture books or board books, requires specific things from the writer. You must be able to focus, you must be able to say much…
Facebook Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Many newer writers don’t consider nonfiction when deciding what they would enjoy writing. They see it as less creative or less interesting. And they associate it with homework, which many of us don’t remember fondly. And yet, nonfiction…
Facebook Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > If there is one mantra fiction writers hear all the time, it’s “show don’t tell,” which means writing in the moment and digging into sensory detail rather than information dumping on readers. Actually, it means more than that,…
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