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QUESTION

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• Organized into simple sentences and shortparagraphs.

• The use of active verbs will keep the vivid in the reader’s mind.

• End each page with a question or othermethod that sparks the reader’s curiosity

for what will happen next.• Repeating a phrase throughout

the will help hold your reader’sattention.

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• Use dialog wherever possible. Use direct quotes instead of

indirect. (Example: “Go away!” instead of “He told her to

go away.”)

• Aim to make dialog at least one-third of your story.

• Avoid big chunks of narration—especially description.

Often you can split it into smaller pieces, or convey

information in dialog. (Example: “I like your purple hair.”)

• Use language that creates an atmosphere or “tone” suited

to your story.

• For younger children, use poetic devices like rhythm,

repetition, alliteration (“Peter Piper picked a peck”), and

rhyme— though generally not in verse.

• Avoid being cutesy or sweet or sentimental or

condescending

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• Has an illustration on the front cover that presents

the main conflict or point

of the .• The illustrations are

usually created after the

text has been written.• Illustrations serve as a

partner to the text

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• Don’t blurt out your theme. Let itemerge from the story. If you mustcome out and say it, do it in dialog,not narration.

• Avoid preaching. Children’s storiesshould be explorations of life—notSunday school lessons.

• Keep your theme positive. If writingabout a social problem, offerconstructive ways for your readers todeal with it.

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• The main character should have one or two easily identifiable dominant traits.

• Present the traits of your characters through both the illustrations and text.

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Young children should be able to easily identify with the dominant traits.

• Avoid using text to present detailed descriptionsof what the characters look like. Let theillustrations present the physical details of the

character

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• A solid, well-developed plot is essential tocreating a good book.

• The resolution of the conflict should teach a lesson.

• However, the lesson should not be told in a didactic way but instead be presented

indirectly through the plot.• Jump right into the main conflict of

the .

• Flashbacks should be used with great

caution. They can confuse younger children

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• Limit your to just one

conflict that the main character

must overcome.

• The main character should beable to deal with the main conflict

in concrete terms.

• The main character should

resolve the conflict him- or

herself.

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• Four of the most common types of conflictare:

- Individual vs. individual, individual vs.society, individual vs. nature, and individual vs. self.

• The most common concerns of childreninclude acceptance by others, family

dynamics, physical growth (especially sizeand looks), and curiousity of the unknown(e.g., learning something new, participatingin a new activity, going to a new place,getting lost).

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• Set your story in a place and time that will

be interesting or familiar.

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By: Aaron Shepard

• how to write children's short story

http://www.aaronshep.com/kidwriter/Tips.html

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