A particular trend or style is very
important for childrens’ books. Therefore, a writer must pay attention to the
style of writing. The construction of the story is very important. It helps to
add elegance and style to the story. The story becomes easy to understand and
not awkward to read. Creating a children’s book is a very creative and fun
filled adventure. It requires great imagination and skills to create something
impossible, yet innocent. First of all, you must know what you are going to
write, which will be the center of the story. Once you realize your theme, you
can write faster and come up with good ideas one after the other. This will
help you a lot to create a good story.
You can follow the following
suggestions to make the children’s booklet trendy:
·
When a writer starts writing, he or
she, writes everything that comes to mind. You must make sure to cut out unessential
description in the creative writing. It is not very amusing to keep on reading
long descriptions. In writing, brief can be more impressive. Especially in children’s
books, simplicity and to the point attitude can work better.
·
As you are writing childrens’ books,
you must keep the sentences short and concise. Many times, parents have to read
the book to children. Therefore, long sentences can be boring for parents to
read and kids to hear. Concise sentences keep the story more interesting and dramatic.
·
You must be very sensitive towards
the words you are using. You must use correct words and correct grammar. Children
are great and keen listeners; therefore, any wrong usage of words or grammar,
and you are immediately caught. Besides, it becomes hard for kids to understand
if it is not correctly presented.
·
Do not overuse a word. Sometimes, a
word just fits in your mind, and you tend to use it again and again. Avoid such
mistakes.
Research: You must know that all the
work that you create comes from research. Therefore, research is very
essential. Anything that you state in the story must come from good research
and a solid background. If you just create a story in your head and write it
down without any research, then readers will know it. The writing should be
precise and straight forward. If you ramble around too much, the readers will
lose interest. You must know when to go into details and when to remain short.
This all happens with thorough research and experience.
Characters: It has been observed that
novice writers first develop the story and then try to fit in the characters in
the story. This kills the charm of the story and takes the story into an
artificial mode. Therefore, the ideal thing to do is first create the character
and then the story along with it. When you create characters, you create their
temperament, nature, and their own background story. This will bring characters
to life and show your passion towards your work.
If, for example, you are writing
about a narrow valley, you can use different names for the same. You can call
it ravine, or canyon, etc. this will keep the story fresh and kids will learn
new words for the same thing. This will improve the child’s vocabulary.
A writer must have a habit of re-reading
their work. Sometimes while reading you will realize that there is overuse of a
particular term. Too much occurrence of the same term is rather disturbing while
reading. There are some words like “but”, “so”, “however”, and even “the” that
are sometimes used too much. You must remove all the unnecessary words. You can
use the help of Microsoft Word to check grammar and spelling.
There are very popular expressions
like “short and sweet”, which look good, but do not overuse them. It is best to
use them once in your story because too much use will decrease its effect. The
above given suggestions are to improve your trend or style of the story.
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