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Showing posts with label Writing For Children. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Writing For Children. Show all posts
Friday, 7 July 2017

Who Is Driving Your Story?

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By Em Lynas When I first started writing I was under the impression that the protagonist was in the driving seat and I wrote mainly f...
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Monday, 4 March 2013

Maureen says, 'I'm Writing the Never Ending Story.'

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When you think your story’s done. When you think you’ve ironed out all of the plot wrinkles. When you’ve upped the threat. When you’ve s...
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Monday, 28 January 2013

Maureen says, 'Show Not Tell.'

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By Maureen Lynas Look, I'm cross. Can't you tell? Do I have to actually spell it out for you! Grrrrrrrrr I once atten...
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Tuesday, 27 November 2012

A Scoobie Do to Remember

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Three amazing things happened to three of my lovely SCBWI friends at this year's BI SCBWI conference and I thought I would share my hap...
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Thursday, 5 July 2012

The Five Bricks of Story and Life

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by Maureen Lynas Eureka! Orrible Enrietta I'm always on the look out for patterns and structures when I'm analysing ...
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Thursday, 7 June 2012

Seven Steps for Plotting and Pacing

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by Maureen Lynas WARNING! If you follow these steps you may never enjoy a book or film ever again. You may even experience marita...
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Thursday, 10 May 2012

Ready to Publish? Are you? Are you really?

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 by Maureen Lynas . Illustrations by guest blogger Katherine Lynas   Are your characters ready to be seen? ...
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Thursday, 2 June 2011

The Arvon Experience

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By Maureen Lynas It is possible that my experience of going on a Writing for Children, course at the Lumb Bank Arvon Centre, in 2010, was ...
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Thursday, 7 January 2010

Beware of Illustrators and Other Tips for Authors

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My friend Jeremy is nine and is DEFINITELY going to be an author when he grows up ... or when he gets published, whichever comes first. His ...
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Sunday, 20 December 2009

Selfridges goes for fairy tales ... with grotesque retail twists.

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Daughter and I were in shopping calvary on Oxford Street when we chanced upon Selfridge's fairy tale themed window displays. A terrifyin...
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Saturday, 1 November 2008

Verna Wilkins and the Promise of Change in Our Own Lifetimes

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BREAKING NEWS This morning Barack Obama was declared the next president of the United States and suddenly the world has changed irretrievab...
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