How to Write Children's Fiction: Sources, Voice and Style

Session One (of Three)

I’m going to post, over the next three weeks, three short essays on how to write children’s books, and the mysterious and not so mysterious aspects of the business.

And that, I think, is one of the key things to understand. The writing process is a strange one, a tortured one, and is often conceived of romantically; and there’s many reasons why we should continue to think of it as such.

But the book world is also a business, and as a writer, you are a crucial part of that business, and it helps to have some idea of where you stand in relation to other writers and to the market as a whole.

In this first short session I’ll talk about sources, voice and style.