Children's Novel Writing for Beginners

Learn to create contemporary and vibrant fiction for young readers, inspired by your memories.

• Introduction
• Finding Ideas and Preparing to Write
• How to Enrich Your Writing
• Editing and Finishing Your Piece of Writing
• Final project

We are all storytellers, and through children’s novel writing you can dive into your own memories and explore your senses to create a captivating narrative. Lisa Thompson is a professional children’s author and writer of the best-selling book The Goldfish Boy, among others. She has been nominated for numerous awards including the Carnegie Medal and the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize. She also gives talks and workshops at book festivals and schools.

In this course, Lisa teaches you how to tap in your surroundings, and evoke memories in order to make your stories realistic and vivid for your readers. Learn how to gather ideas and inspiration, establish your main character, connect to your audience, and share your work with the world. Are you ready to spark the imagination of young readers?

• About Me
• Influences
• Materials for Writing
• Ideas
• Choosing Your Main Characters
• Finding Material in Your Past
• Planning a Story
• Researching to Connect with Your Audience
• The Importance of 'Show, Don't Tell'
• Music and Mood Boards
• Writing and Finishing Your Draft
• Editing Your Writing
• Sharing Your Writing
• How to make writing more vibrant for a younger reader