Young at Heart: The Step-By-Step Way of Writing Children's Stories

The book is a simple step-by-step guide that leads the reader through the steps necessary to successfully write children's stories. Each step motivates creativity allowing the reader's unique style of writing to surface. The 12 steps in the book apply to all fictional writing. The book has examples, exercises, and worksheets that help the reader to create their own story. It also takes the reader through picture book layout and gives an exercise for writers block. The book is a very useful and practical writing book.

Recommended as a Writer's Reference Book by the Institute of Children's Literature and Grumpy's Global Marketing for Books.

Violet Ramos is a published writer in children's short stories, magazine articles, and newspaper articles. She has taught writing classes for children's books for over 12 years in Viginia, Maryland, Texas, and presently teaches classes for Scottsdale Community Colleges in Arizona. She gives workshops on how to stay young at heart through writing children's stories. She believes staying young is a gift we have all been given and writing children's stories helps you to feel young at heart. One of her greatest gifts is motivating her students to write creatively without feeling intimidated.