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This course includes:

  • 1.5 hours on-demand video
  • 2 articles
  • 50 downloadable resources
  • Full lifetime access
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Personal Development Creativity Writing a Book

How To Write a GREAT Children's Book

Master The Ability To Create Stories That Kids Will Love With the Help of Two Bestselling Authors.
Bestseller
Rating: 4.4 out of 54.4 (541 ratings)
2,729 students
Created by Rob Parnell
Last updated 6/2017
English
English [Auto]
30-Day Money-Back Guarantee

What you'll learn

  • Create quality children's fiction
  • Submit to children's book publishers with confidence
  • Know the children's writing genre like a professional
  • Self publish your own stories for children through Amazon etc

Requirements

  • No prior experience is necessary although a keen interest in children's fiction will help

Description

Learn how to write a children's story that kids will love.

The lessons come in three different formats: video, audio and PDFs - for you convenience and to help which ever way you learn best. There are also numerous e-book downloads to further your understanding. Plus, you may ask questions of the instructors at any time.

The course starts with an overview of the children's writing genre. Then gives advice on how to use positive thinking and goals to begin your writing journey.

Next, specific writing advice is given about how to come up with ideas, characters and plots for outstanding children's stories.

Then you are introduced to the many different genres of children's books. You need to know these so that you can market and target your work more effectively.

After, you will discover more advanced writing techniques that will mark you out as a professional when you begin to either submit your work to publishers or self publish your stories.

In the conclusion you are shown the essential ingredients for writing success.

Finally, you may experience an exclusive interview with bestselling author, Robyn Opie Parnell, writer of over 100 published children's books.

If you've ever thought about writing for children, this course is all you need to succeed.ti

Who this course is for:

  • For new and wannabe writers of children's fiction

Course content

10 sections • 28 lectures • 1h 39m total length

  • Preview01:24

  • Preview01:35
  • Preview02:18
  • Preview02:24
  • Preview04:25

  • Getting Ideas
    02:25
  • Characters
    02:09
  • Plotting
    03:49

  • Planning
    02:51
  • Basic Story Telling
    02:39

  • Point of View
    04:14
  • Technical Issues
    04:19
  • Structure
    02:28

  • Download These Resources
    00:13

  • Picture Books One
    03:18
  • Picture Books Two
    03:11
  • Picture Books Three
    01:43
  • Easy Readers
    02:41
  • Transition Books
    01:09
  • Chapter Books
    01:42
  • Junior Novels
    02:01
  • Young Adult Fiction
    04:36

  • Dialogue
    04:53
  • Show Don't Tell
    05:06

  • Conclusion
    01:32

  • Interview Part One
    08:06
  • Interview Part Two
    10:47
  • Interview Part Three
    11:49

Instructor

Rob Parnell
Freelance Writer, Educator, and Bestselling Author
Rob Parnell
  • 4.4 Instructor Rating
  • 1,709 Reviews
  • 24,127 Students
  • 15 Courses

Rob Parnell has been teaching authors online since 2002. He has published over fifty bestselling books and courses on genre writing, motivation, productivity and getting rich and healthy. 

You'll enjoy his down to earth style and the sense Rob somehow knows you like a friend! 

He has been writing since he was five years old. He writes every day without fail - it's a compulsion - and he still hasn't run out of things to say... His preferred genre is the thriller - sometimes with a supernatural edge - in which he writes short stories, graphic novels, screenplays, and adult thrillers. 

In between published fiction projects, Rob has written over 40 nonfiction self-help titles and has been published all over the world for the last twenty years. Also a musician and composer, singer, media producer and budding movie maker, Rob is ecstatically happy to be married to Robyn Opie Parnell, his savior and the popular bestselling children's author.

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