How to Write and Publish a Children's Book, Poetry Book & Biography
I get asked some version of this question a lot: "I have an idea for a book, but I don't even know where to start." Usually it's one of three things — a bedtime story they've been telling their own kids for years, a stack of poems sitting in a drawer, or a life story (theirs, or someone they love) that they feel needs to be written down before it's forgotten. So let's just walk through all three, honestly, without the fluff. Children's Books: Harder Than They Look Here's the thing nobody tells you about children's books — they look easy, and they are anything but. Short sentences, a fun little story, some pictures, wrap it up in a weekend. That's the myth. The reality is that writing something a five-year-old will actually ask to read again, night after night, is one of the hardest kinds of writing there is. A few things that actually matter here. Pick one idea and stick to it — friendship, being scared of the dark, sharing your toy...