Study at home learning to write books for children.
If you want a career writing children's books, our tutor supported open distance learning Writing Books for Children course provides the necessary knowledge, skills and qualification without disrupting your current lifestyle.
The DCA Home Learning Writing Books for Children course provides training in the core skills needed to embark on a rewarding career writing books for children. The DCA supported self-study Writing Books for Children course is specially designed, allowing you to learn the skills of Writing Books for Children through flexible and cost-effective home study at your own time and pace.
With the DCA Home Learning Writing Books for Children course, online study resources and a personal tutor are available to guide you throughout the course, and your Student Advisor is a Freephone call away. What's more, because the distance learning Writing Books for Children course is so comprehensive, no prior knowledge or skills are required. The DCA Writing Books for Children course provides an entry level diploma as proof our your competence and skills.
If you'd like to earn more money and enjoy writing children's books, the DCA home study course is the ideal distance learning training course for you.
Writing and Selling Children’s Picture Books:
Assessing your tools as a writer
• Writing basics and development of a personal style
• Choosing the right type of book to write
• Plot, character and thinking through the story
• Writing a non-fiction picture book
• Writing poetry and verse for children
• How to write about morals, ethics and values
• Marketing your picture book
• Working with editors and illustrators
· Personal and professional advice on being a writer
Creating and Illustrating Children’s Picture Books:
• The art of the storyteller
• The basics of writing for children
• Classic children’s fiction
• New writing on contemporary themes
• Building a career in children’s books
• Technique and production: making the book
• Reflecting a child’s world
• Getting your work published
Writing for Children and Teenagers:
• Developing professional work habits
• Keeping track of story ideas
• How to use dialogue
• Making the reader feel emotion, mood and atmosphere
• How to organise a book
• The daily work of writing
• Getting your story off to a running start
• Fulfilling the opening’s promise
• The climax scene and ending
• Revising and polishing your story
• How to conduct research
• Mystery stories and novels
• Non-fiction and children’s plays
• Markets, contracts, rejections and acceptances |
|
|
|
|
 |
| "Really interesting and very very easy to follow. When I put my daughter to sleep I look forward to studying." — Maria O. |
|
|
