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.
writing a nonfiction article

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, ...

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Submissions Failure

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 ...

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4 Tips for Deciding What You Want in an Agent

4 Tips for Deciding What You Want in an Agent

Facebook Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Certain things are true of all professional literary ...

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The First Steps in Contacting Agents

The First Steps in Contacting Agents

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 ...

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4 Book Proposal Pitfalls

4 Book Proposal Pitfalls

Facebook Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Creating a book proposal can seem daunting. After ...

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