Read, read, read. Read everything - trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.
~ William Faulkner

Here's the latest article from the Writing for Children site at BellaOnline.com:

Writing for Publication
Writing a short story or a book is not easy. It costs. We have to invest our money and our time if we want to write anything worth reading.

Please visit Writing for Children for more tips, articles, links, and discussion on how to write and publish for children.

To participate in free, fun online discussions, the site has a community forum all about Writing for Children.

If you have any questions or comments, as always, I'm glad to hear them. I answer everyone who writes to me, so if you've written and not gotten a response it means I either didn't receive your email or I couldn't send back to you. So try me again. On a list this size emails get lost, I'm sure, and sometimes I try to send mail out and it's bounced or returned with a fatal error.

Feel free to pass this along to family and friends who are also interested in writing for children.

Thanks so much!

Sally Apokedak,
Writing for Children Editor

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