Writing for Children Blog

ICL’s weekly blog article features freelance writer Jan Fields.

With over 100 published books and magazine articles, Jan delivers first-hand knowledge on how to sharpen, submit, and market your writing. Jan’s articles explore inevitable writing struggles and offers tireless strategies and techniques to support you in reaching your writing goals.

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05-29-25 ICL TITLE What Do Publishers Mean by Original

What Do Publishers Mean by Original?

Reading is a natural part of writing. How can we reflect on our favorite writers and their own perseverance to make us better writers?

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05-22-25 ICL TITLE Learning From Your Writing Heroes

Learning From Your Writing Heroes

Reading is a natural part of writing. How can we reflect on our favorite writers and their own perseverance to make us better writers?

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05-15-25 ICL TITLE Bubbling with Inspiration

Bubbling with Inspiration

Inspiration isn't a direct line. It's more of a cloud or fog, and we're walking through it all the time. 

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05-08-25 ICL TITLE Vacation Kick Back and Research

Vacation: Kick Back and Research

For writers, every experience, and vacation, is an opportunity to pack away information for possible use someday in a story or article.

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05-01-25 ICL TITLE Summer Reading

Summer Reading

Eventually our school days are over, and we never get another summer reading list. But what if we did? What should a writer read?

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