The following is an excerpt from The Children’s Writer’s Guide.
For a writer, having ideas is the easy part.
If all that was needed were a good idea, everyone would be a writer.
What takes time, dedication and effort is turning ideas into stories.
You may have the general premise, but your story must be able to sustain the young reader’s interest for more than a hundred and fifty pages or even three hundred or more for young adults, teens, or adults.
You have to sit down and determine if the idea is feasible as a story.
I have a lot of ideas that may never become full blown stories, but I always keep a record of them, since I never know when I might get another piece of the puzzle.
Learn more about The Children’s Writer’s Guide and all Simon’s other books on his website at https://simon-rose.com/.
