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Your (antivirus) Quick Guide to Writing Children’s Stories

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 Your Quick Guide to Writing a Creative Childrens Story

By: Lucy Cope

This article is free and free to share. Take it, sell it, and share it!

If you are interested in writing a creative childrens story, but just dont know where to start, thats okay! Im here to help. I have written and illustrated several books successfully and have gotten a really positive response. You can learn how to be creative too! Creativity is something that is within all of us whether you believe it or not. Youre inner creative self is just waiting to come out and be released to the public.

Writing creative childrens stories start with a basic idea and then you can continue on from that point. I know you are probably thinking that this is easier said than done, but this free article will really help you out. When I started out, I picked Beauty Buzzy the Bee because bumblebees are cute and can be marketed to the masses pretty easily with either girls or boys. Whichever character you choose to start off with, make sure that your character is easily remembered and can appeal to wide variety of audience members. This is important because you will be able to appeal to more people that way.

Once you have picked your main character, you must decide where your character lives, what his/her daily activities are, what are your characters likes or dislikes, etc. I have written a few brainstorming activities to help you to develop your character below:

Character name:

What is your character (ex: insect: bumblebee):

How would your character typically spend their day?

What is your characters favorite pastime?

What is your characters likes or dislikes?

How does your character feel about others?

Which other characters does your main character get along with?

Which other characters does your main character not get along with?

How does your character relate to others?

Where does your character live?

Name some good and bad things about your characters personality:

Additional things you would like to add about your character:

This brainstorming exercise will help you to develop your main character effectively. You should repeat this exercise for each additional character that you would like to introduce into your childrens story. Its important to list how the characters interact and relate to one another because it will help you to better develop your plot. After you have successfully analyzed and thoroughly given each character its proper description, you should decide how you can fit it together to make a story.

Deciding what your story should be about can be considered difficult simply because you want the story to be creative and something that people would enjoy. It can be fairly simple after you have written character development. Just go through the motions of what your character would do during they day, enjoying their favorite pastime, and interaction with the other characters. There are also a few other things to consider. Is there a lesson that can be learned by the interaction of these characters? Can your characters resolve a conflict? How is that resolve going to benefit your readers? All of these important questions can help you to develop a story once answered properly.

Something that I like to do is to write rhyming stories. All of my stories rhyme simply because it is what I am the best at. If rhyming is not for you, then by all means, dont write a rhyming story. I write this way because it makes the story catchy and easy to remember, quote, etc. The more memorable your book is, the more it will be revisited and possibly recommended to others. If you are interested in writing this way, please look at an example such as Beauty Buzzy the Bee available for free at my website. The best thing to do is to start off with something in your story like the word bee and find things that rhyme with it such as: tree, me, see, etc. You can do this as many times as possible, and it will help you to create a cute, rhyming childrens story.

Illustrations for your story may be done by someone you know or you can do them yourself. As a matter of convenience, I do all of my own illustrations. I found a great website that will teach you step by step how to make beautiful watercolor paintings. It would really be useful for someone who wanted to do their own illustrations. Click Here to see how to make your own watercolor paintings.

Now that you know how to create the most wonderful, beautiful, and awesome childrens stories, go out and make a book! Dont forget to check out my website to see how you can self-publish and market your childrens book 100% online. You can make a serious living doing what you enjoy without the help of an agent or a publisher!

Pencils Up!

Lucy Cope

http://myfreebeebook.com

http://myfreebeebook.com/Documents/Your%20Quick%20Guide%20to%20Writing%20a%20Creative%20Children.pdf

Being Honest When Internet Dating
By Shawn Wilson

 One of the most significant differences between dating in person and dating online is the honesty factor. It’s all too easy to embellish or flat out lie about whom you are when you are on an internet dating site.

It’s easy to lie because it’s difficult for the other person to verify anything about you when they don’t know you personally face-to-face. Unfortunately, this makes for a lot of mayhem in relationships when things get more serious.

Take for example if you state that you would like to have more children. The person you are now dating that you met through an internet dating service stated that they too want more children and this was a key factor for them in deciding to initially communicate with you when you first met online.

Now things have progressed and you are in a bona fide relationship together; happy and enjoying each other’s company. Neither one of you have gone over your profile details with each other because you figure that you will know everything about them as time progresses.

True enough but if something as important as wanting to have children is not something that you were really looking forward to, you just put it in there in the hopes of finding someone sooner, but now it IS important to your partner and both of you have become attached to one another and are invested emotionally.

The point is, a seemingly innocent lie about yourself can now be a deal breaker in your relationship or worse yet, you give in and agree to have children because you do not want to lose them.

Just a hint here, and this applies to anything you want in a future relationship with someone, if you do or don’t want children, make that absolutely clear from the outset. Something as big as wanting children can’t be a ‘we’ll see’ attitude that you can take.

Lying about details like this can have serious problems for you in the future and a few broken hearts as well. A quality internet dating site will give you the option of searching for someone who wants children and who don’t. Use their search and stick to the ones that you specified.

There is no point in entertaining a relationship with someone if your ideals and beliefs are different from yours. Should you decide and agree that due to your differences that you will only entertain a friendship with them and they concur, then by all means enjoy your new friend.

However, the majority of people are on internet dating sites to meet someone romantically, long term or otherwise, so keep that in mind when decided what to do. It’s not that it is not possible, it is, however, most people are not interested and move on quickly after an incompatibility issues comes up.

In the end, honesty is the best policy, perhaps even more so when it comes to internet dating. Save yourself the time and aggravation, not to mention the other person’s time as well, and be as brutally honest as you dare on your profile.

This article was written by Shawn Wilson, a member of the customer support team at Datepad, where internet dating is always free. Datepad has a massive directory of informative dating articles along with a great list of dating site reviews on their dating blog.

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