Course Description


Topic: WRITING FOR CHILDREN

Level: Beginner

Duration: 5 hours approx

Delivery: Video, Audio, PDF

RPWA Certificate: Yes

Learn How To Create Quality Children's Fiction

Guided By Two Bestselling Authors

  • Submit to children's book publishers with confidence
  • Know the children's writing genre like a professional
  • Self-publish your own stories for children through Amazon etc.


Learn how to write a children's story that kids will love.

See below for a full listing of the course contents. The course starts with an overview of the children's writing genre. Then gives advice on how to begin your writing journey.

Next, specific writing advice is given about how to come up with ideas, characters, and plots for outstanding children's stories.

Then you are introduced to the many different genres of children's books. You need to know these so that you can market and target your work more effectively.

After, you will discover more advanced writing techniques that will mark you out as a professional when you begin to either submit your work to publishers or to self-publish your own stories for profit.

In the conclusion, you are shown the essential ingredients for writing success.

Finally, you will experience an exclusive interview with bestselling author, Robyn Opie Parnell, writer of over 100 published children's books.

The lessons come in three different formats: video, audio, and PDFs - for your convenience and to help whichever way you learn best. These formats work on all currently available technology: mobile, tablet, iPad, user PC, even cell phones. Plus, when you log into any device you will be immediately taken back to where you last left the course.

Included in the course are numerous e-book downloads to further your understanding of writing for children. Plus, you may ask questions of the instructors at any time.

If you've ever thought about writing for children, the course instructors guarantee this course is all you need to succeed.


Your Personal Instructor

Rob Parnell

Rob Parnell has been teaching online since 2002, specifically helping writers earn money from their passion. He is the proud founder of The Writing Academy, an online school dedicated to student success and authorial excellence.Rob has published over thirty number-one best-selling books on genre fiction authorship, freelance writing, motivation, productivity; getting rich, staying thin and healthy. When it comes to making a living from writing, composing music, and creating film projects, Rob is a man who knows what he's talking about! You'll enjoy his down-to-earth style and the feeling Rob somehow knows you like a friend! Rob has been writing since he was five years old. He writes every day without fail - it's a compulsion. His preferred genre is the thriller - sometimes with a supernatural edge - in which he writes short stories, novels, screenplays, and adult thrillers - including his Purge detective novels and the popular Sherlock Holmes: Zombie Slayer series. Also a musician and composer, an accomplished singer, media producer and budding movie maker, Rob is ecstatically happy to be married to Robyn Opie Parnell, his savior, and the popular best-selling children's author.They live miles from anywhere in their beautiful country farmhouse, its eleven acres tucked within inches of the stunning Flinders Ranges, with their beloved pets, Wally the dog and the cats: Jessie, and Iggy (because he's The Wild One.)

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Read Me First

    • Read Me

  • 2

    Introduction

    • 01intro-1

    • IntroductionAUDIO

    • 01IntroPDF

    • 02info-1

    • InformationAUDIO

    • 02InfoPDF

    • 03keys-1

    • KeysAUDIO

    • 03KeysPDF

    • 04aim-1

    • AIMAUDIO

    • 04AIMPDF

  • 3

    Coming Up With Ideas

    • 05ideas-1

    • IdeasAUDIO

    • 05IdeasPDF

    • 06characters-1

    • CharactersAUDIO

    • 06CharactersPDF

    • 07plotting-1

    • PlottingAUDIO

    • 07PlottingPDF

  • 4

    The Mechanics of Writing

    • 08planning-1

    • PlanningAUDIO

    • 08PlanningPDF

    • 09storytelling-1

    • StorytellingAUDIO

    • 09StorytellingPDF

  • 5

    Important Technical Issues

    • 10pov-1

    • POVAUDIO

    • 10POVPDF

    • 11technical-1

    • TechnicalAUDIO

    • 11TechnicalPDF

    • 12structure-1

    • StructureAUDIO

    • 12StructurePDF

  • 6

    Types of Children's Books

    • 13picturebooks1-1

    • PictureONEAUDIO

    • 13PictureBooksONEPDF

    • 14picturebooks2-1

    • 14PictureBooksTWOPDF

    • PictureTWOAUDIO

    • 15PictureBooksTHREEPDF

    • 15picturebooks3-1

    • PictureTHREEAUDIO

    • 16easyreaders-1

    • EasyReadersAUDIO

    • 16EasyReadersPDF

    • 17transition-1

    • TransitionAUDIO

    • 17TransitionPDF

    • 18chapterbooks-1

    • ChapterBooksAUDIO

    • 18ChapterBooksPDF

    • 19junior-1

    • JuniorBooksAUDIO

    • 19JuniorNovelsPDF

    • 20youngadult-1

    • YoungAdultAUDIO

    • 20YoungAdultNovelsPDF

  • 7

    Advanced Fiction Techniques

    • 21dialogue-1

    • DialogueAUDIO

    • 21DialoguePDF

    • 22showdonttell-1

    • ShowDontTellAUDIO

    • 22ShowDontTellPDF

  • 8

    Conclusion

    • 23conclusion-1

    • ConclusionAUDIO

    • 23ConclusionPDF

  • 9

    Interview With a Children's Author

    • RobynInterview01

    • RobynInterview02

    • RobynInterview03

  • 10

    Bonus Items in PDF

    • Articles on Writing for Children

    • How to Write a Children's Book

Reviews

5 star rating

Encouraging

Elizabeth Dickinson

This is one course that has no ending. Each page always gives more information than the first time read. It seems it is known when an idea or a question w...

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This is one course that has no ending. Each page always gives more information than the first time read. It seems it is known when an idea or a question will come up, as the answer appears soon after. I also like the way the wording is a person talking to the reader ,one on one.

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Excellentf

Rosa Castro

Excellent. Learn a lot.

Excellent. Learn a lot.

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Great course

Ausra Ludvigsen

I especially liked Robyn's articles at the end of the course. So well written and informative. They complimented the preceding video course very well. Thanks...

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I especially liked Robyn's articles at the end of the course. So well written and informative. They complimented the preceding video course very well. Thanks to this course I learned to appreciate children's books.

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Five Stars

Helen Keane

Simple, easy to follow and understand. Great teaching as in all Rob's courses. A delight to read and learn.

Simple, easy to follow and understand. Great teaching as in all Rob's courses. A delight to read and learn.

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I have an idea

Robin Enright

Thank you I have been toying with writing a children's book for awhile. This course was very good. I am starting my book. Thank you

Thank you I have been toying with writing a children's book for awhile. This course was very good. I am starting my book. Thank you

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Excellent

Kathleen Kirkland

Very informative, great content, just what I needed for writing my Children's book. My first completed children's novel was accepted by the first two publis...

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Very informative, great content, just what I needed for writing my Children's book. My first completed children's novel was accepted by the first two publishers I sent it to. Thank you so much for the helpful course.

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How To Write a GREAT Children's Book

Lee Saenz

Excellent! course. I highly recommend it. Great for all levels of writers. It's informative & clear.

Excellent! course. I highly recommend it. Great for all levels of writers. It's informative & clear.

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Five Stars

Leona Niccum