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Tips to Find ideas for a new story for your Children’s Book

What was that? You can’t think of anything to write a story about?  Look around you – open your eyes!  Listen to snippets of people’s conversations!  Here’s a few suggestions:

Maybe you are a nurse or doctor – what happened to one of your patients?  If you are a wife and mother, do you say “I haven’t done anything interesting lately”?  Ask yourself how you cope with your children, their school playground fights, and how did you stop your kids wanting to kill one another?  How is it that your husband has survived his stressful job year-on-year?

The point is that you can actually create a story for your children’s book from just about anything!  Listen to the gossip around you… “Jess has been having an affair with her best friend’s husband,” Tracey said.  That’s the making of a story.  What, when, why, where and how did she cheat on her friend? What was it that made her be unfaithful at all?  Perhaps it was lack of money, work pressures, maybe even some suspicion that the husband was already being unfaithful.

Once you’ve got some answers to those questions, get rolling with the next ones: where did they live?  In which town or city? Or even, which country?  What was it that the husband did for a living?

Was the affair the wife’s fault? Did she leave her man feeling neglected or even no longer needed, by spending too much time with the kids?  Once you’ve figured this out, put some obstacles in their way to prevent them from reconciling their marriage.

Now that you have that resolved, perhaps create an illness, so that he or she feels sorry for the other.  This is fiction after all, so you can make anything up for your children’s book!  As long as you create suspense, drama and indeed action, then you will keep the reader interested.  Hold their attention, or they will put the book down with even a second thought.

If you still are finding it difficult to think to something to write about, you may begin to think you have writer’s block.  In that case, try grabbing a dictionary, opening it at random, close your eyes an stab your finger on to the page.  Write the word down, even if you don’t know its meaning. Repeat this 10 or 12 times and build a list of words.  When you don’t know their meanings, look at the description in the dictionary or get a thesaurus to find a similar word with the same meaning.

Now start writing some sentences, each with a different word, until you make it in to a gripping short story.  You never know, it may turn in to a novel!

Learning

Read, read, and read some more.  The more that you read, the more you will learn.  Read a short story, see how they have been written.  Pick one, and then replace the plots with your own plot, or drama.  Keep practicing this until you have an entirely different story.

Having done this, start from the middle of your story as though it was the beginning, and rearrange the whole thing.  Try starting your children’s book with action.  Show this action happening, don’t just tell it.

Use your Five Senses

Go outside, smell the fresh air.  Smell the scent of the flowers.  Hear the ocean roar with each wave on to the sand.  The wind in the trees.  The cars on the road.  Touch the softness of silk and satin.  Taste the flavours of everything that touches your lips.

Look for colour in your scenes – “The blue sky disappearing behind the grey rolling clouds”, “the yellow tulips waving in the breeze”.

To begin with, start by writing your children’s book with something you know about.  Do you have pets?  Do you have any medical problems that went wrong?  A swimming disaster; an amazing holiday with the best destinations…

Find ideas for your stories from everyday happenings.  Look around you, listen to what’s going on, and read how others do it.  Before long you will be writing your own stories.

Children’s Short Stories

Try making up stories to tell children.  Then write down the ones they liked the most.  Ask them to join in by adding their own little suggestions.  This can seriously help you when writing your children’s book.

Writing for children can be difficult.  You need to use words of different lengths for the different ages of child. A five year old won’t understand longer words, but a 15 year old won’t be entertained by baby talk.  Think about who you are writing for and get it right.

Conclusion

Find ideas for your children’s book from everyday things that happen around you.  Always look around you, and listen to the World around you, read what other people are doing and how they do it.  This will lead you to your own great story or thrilling novel.

Keep a notepad with you at all times.  You never know when a great little idea will pop into your head – you don’t want to lose it!  You’ll never remember it in a week or two if you don’t write it down.

Most of all, learn to write, write, and write even more.  You can write your children’s book.

 

Dispelling Myths About Writing Children’s Books and A Little Word About Confidence.
Tips to think about when Writing for Children.

To Writing and Publishing You Own Children’s Book

When you write a children’s book, by making the main character in your childrens book the same age as your target audience, children will relate to them much better. This is true even if the main character is made up, or not even human. Children enjoy stories much more when they relate to the characters.

Kids like and need to feel safe in their own world and so a happy ending is the way forward. Adults know that happy endings don’t always happen in the real world, but children need to feel secure and believe things always work out, so they feel content. Therefore a good happy ending will do the trick. It is definitely worth bearing in mind when you write a children’s book.

Adding new exciting words to a story can challenge a child’s mind, which is great for development. But as you write a children’s book, don’t assume that your book has to have limited language to make sense. Just make sure you don’t over do it when it comes to adding those big new words, as a child needs to understand what is going on in the story if you are to keep their full interest. You don’t want to scare them away from reading you book, by making it feel that it’s too complex for them to read and understand.

So those are a couple of things to consider when you write a children’s book.