How To Write For Children: Online Course

Learn how to write stories children will love — and turn your ideas into finished stories. Do you have a story you’ve always wanted to write for children?

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Perhaps you have a picture-book idea, a middle-grade adventure, or a young adult story waiting to be told. But writing for children is different than writing for adults. You need to understand your young readers, choose the right language, create believable characters, and tell a story that is right for your young readers.

If you’re excited to write for tiny overlords, brave princesses, or aspiring pirates, you’ll feel right at home.

Learn How To Write For Children

This practical, step-by-step course takes you through the essential skills you need to write for young readers.

You’ll learn how to:

1. Find and develop ideas for children’s stories.
2. Create memorable characters children will care about.
3. Build strong plots and story structures.
4. Write effective dialogue.
5. Choose the right viewpoint and tense.
6. Use language that suits your target age group.
7. Write for different age categories.
8. Create engaging beginnings, middles, and endings.
9. Develop settings that bring your stories to life.
10. Understand what makes children’s fiction work.
11. Rewrite and improve your manuscript.

Whether you’re writing your first children’s story or want to strengthen a manuscript you’ve already started, this course will give you the tools and confidence to move forward.

What You’ll Gain

By the end of the course, you’ll have:

1. Insight into the worlds of children’s writers, editors, and publishers.
2. Confidence in your ability to write for young readers.
3. A clear understanding of the writing process for children’s books.
4. Practical tools and techniques you can apply immediately.
5. The skills to produce publishable work — fiction or non-fiction, picture books or chapter books.

Turn Your Idea Into A Story

Writing for children can look deceptively simple. The stories may be shorter, but every word has to earn its place.

You need to know who you’re writing for, what your readers want, and how to keep them turning the pages.

This course breaks the process down into manageable lessons so that you can learn the craft, practise your skills, and develop your own stories as you go.

We Cover: 

1. What’s trending, and what’s not, in children’s writing.
2. Fresh, engaging plot ideas.
3. Creating characters kids will love.
4. Pages for Ages: understanding story length, genre, and language levels.
5. The ‘once upon a time’ structure to shape your story.
6. Choosing the right viewpoint and tense.
7. Writing lively, age-appropriate dialogue.
8. How to plot a children’s book from start to finish.
9. Revising, editing, and preparing your work for publication.
10. Key awards and leading children’s book publishers.

Write The Story You Wish You’d Had As A Child

Every great children’s book begins with an idea.

Maybe yours is funny. Maybe it’s magical. Maybe it explores something important. Or perhaps it’s simply a story you can’t stop thinking about.

Now you can learn how to turn that idea into a story.

Take the first step towards becoming a children’s writer with How To Write For Children Online.

What You Get:

When you enrol, you’ll receive:

1. 26 online modules covering the essential elements of writing for children.
2. A printable workbook to help you put the lessons into practice.
3. A printable PDF of the course.
4. A coaching session with writing coach Mia Botha.
5. The freedom to work through the course at your own pace.

Ready To Start Writing For Children?

How To Write For Children Online Course — US $199

Learn the craft, develop your ideas, and start writing stories for young readers.

How To Buy And Access Your Online Course

How To Pay

1. Add course to basket.
2. Click on basket at top right hand side of the page.
3. Proceed to checkout.
4. Pay:

• Use Paypal, or
• Use your coupon if you have one.

5. Create account. (please remember to do this)

Your purchase and details will be confirmed on a page where you can download the course book and workbook.

Access Your Account

If you want to access the course content online go to: My Account

You will be able to access the modules online and download the course book and workbook from there as well.

1. You need access to a computer, the internet, and if you decide to print the workbook, a printer.
2. Writing materials. We would encourage you to write by hand as much as possible, but, you are welcome to use any tool or material that you are comfortable with. No two methods, or two writers, are the same.

How Do You Complete The Exercises?

1. Either download the course and work off a printed version OR work from the online modules on the website.
2. For the free writing exercises, simply put pen to paper and see where it takes you.
3. For the more structured exercises, try to follow the instructions. But then again, it’s creative writing and there are no rules.

Coaching Session

You can use your coaching session to ask questions and discuss your writing. You can also submit a piece of writing of no longer than 1,000 words for the session.

The session must be taken within six months of signing up for the course.

P.S. If you want to speak to us, please email news@writerswrite.co.za with your request.

Refund Policy: Our online courses are non-refundable.