Focus on Writing for Children from Writers Online Workshops
Creative Writing
Training
Provided by F+W Publications, Inc.
The goal of this intermediate-level workshop is to explain the practical why behind writing technique/literary devices and showing writers the when, where and how to translate the concepts of writing for children into story text. You will work with a professional children s author who will help you take your writing skills to the next level. The course will help you develop rules, checks, and rewriting procedures for a writing process that brings everything down to the most basic level words; that is, how to write the words to apply the concepts. By the end of your class, your first draft will be more marketable through your understanding of the revision process and the elements of the craft for creating stories children want to read.
In order to get the most from this workshop, you should have a completed first draft of a fictional story targeting children over seven years old (early chapter book, middle-grade novel, or young adult/teen novel) You should also have a strong grasp of mechanics and composition, as well as an understanding of basic fiction-writing skills and techniques for writing specifically for children. (The Fundamentals of Writing for Children Workshop is strongly recommended as a preliminary.)
This workshop will consist of seven two-week sessions. The sessions will include online lectures and reading assignments in books on craft, as well as suggested reading in published children s books to reinforce and explain the principles presented in this course. Each session also has a writing assignment specifically related to your story or novel, which will be submitted to the instructor for private review at the end of the first week of each session. During the second week of each session, work will be posted for group review and feedback in an on-line critique-group format. Throughout the workshop you will participate in asynchronous lecture discussion and encouraged to take advantage of ongoing informal discussions and posted self-directed writing exercises.
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Focus on Writing for Children from Writers Online Workshops
About The Training Provider: F+W Publications, Inc.
F+W Publications, Inc. - Founded in the early 1900s, F+W is a publisher of special interest magazines and books in a broad variety of consumer enthusiast categories. The Company also operates book clubs, conferences, trade shows, websites and education programs, all focused on the same consumer hobbies and enthusiast subject areas where the magazines and book publishing programs specialize.
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