Many aspiring writers decide the way to start their career is to write for children. And they tend to have two very good reasons for deciding this: 1. The woman that wrote the stories about the boy wizard is doing very well for herself and I want some of that 2.

Not sure what to say when your child asks you to read their story? Afraid you'll hurt their feelings or make them angry? Here are some constructive tips so you can work together to improve their writing. Useful for the home school curriculum, gifted students and anyone who wants to make writing easier. With a free Parent Newsletter full of useful writing tips and fun exercises.

You're inspired by an idea for a book and decide to sit down and start writing. You take your laptop to a quiet comfortable spot in your home and open up your document.

This story is helpful when our lives seem too hard to handle. It can serve as a reminder of who we want to be in tough times.

Do you want to help your kids with writing, but they hate it when you point out their mistakes? Home school or mainstream, gifted or not, kids all make similar writing errors. The next time you read their writing, try telling your kids what they are doing right, instead of focusing on mistakes. Praise alone has been shown to improve children's writing. This article shows how and why to do it.

There are many tricks and tips to help writers either beat the block or to ensure that they keep in the groove. One of the tools that I use and I borrowed it from my day job – is music.

Here are useful strategies to ease the transition to primary school, from a top author, parent and teacher. Learn how to prepare, what to expect on the first day and following weeks and how you can help.

If readers can't identify with, care about, or somehow share the feelings of the characters, despite a perfect plot and poetic prose, the story is likely to bomb. Readers must respond to the characters viscerally, with sympathy or antipathy, early on.

Yes you read that right. I have a story to tell that is more about coffee but it also could have well been about flood damage. Simply because freeze drying of documents forms the connection. You may h

Many writers will tell you that they are great at research. They can spend up to six months prior to putting pen to paper – yet few actually bother to study the market they’re writing for.