Imagine being bundled up in your favorite blanket next to your mom, in your warm pajamas. Your mom is reading your favorite book to you in her soft voice. This is childhood. Writing a children’s book will make you think of those good times again. Becoming an author requires dedication and determination. This article will spark your interest to be creative and inform you how to write a children’s book.
Chapter One: Strategies To Writing a Children’s book
This is a graph of what children want for Christmas. Looking at this graph one can infer that kids like science, learning, and dolls. This list makes me think of popular books when I was a kid, such as: 100 Weird but True
Facts by Franz Kafka (Science) Fancy Nancy by Jane O’Connor (dolls),
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Firstly you do not need a degree in any sort of literature to write a book. Writing in general is a requirement that needs to be worked on everyday, even if it is only for 15 minutes this will build your writing skills to make you a better writer. Another good choice to proceed in the writing career is subscribing to SCBWI this stands for the Society of children’s book writer's and illustrators. Subscribing to this will give you lessons, advice, and creating illustrations for your own book. This is a way to take lesson’s without going back to school, which is a great alternative for many people. On the contrary investors, (or companies) may want you to have a degree in literature, (Meaning some people may not want to sell your book in their store or library because you do not have a degree in writing.) Even though people who go to college to be writers often have debt, those people are more likely to get a job for writing and getting paid to write, unlike writing (and subscribing) just for a pastime and hoping to get …show more content…
If you are a self published author, you make an average of 500 and in some rare cases 1,000 dollars a year. This is not enough to make a living, not even enough to last a month, on the plus side this is a good hobby for retired people, at home mom’s, and anyone because at the end of the year 500 dollars is 500 dollars. If you are working for a writing company you do not get earn a salary for one book, not even serval. Writers normally are under contract and the percent they are paid determines their annual payments.
In Conclusion writing a children’s book is a great hobby to pursue. Writing firstly requires an idea, and then a passion to push it even further. Even if you don’t have any requirements to be under a contract, you now know the strategies, and income to become a successful self published author. Your book is waiting. So if you're looking for a challenge and have an creative idea for writing you now known everything to