Every word matters.
So, you’re writing a children’s book Ruba, how hard could it be?
Listen, I will sound like a broken record but you REALLY won’t know this struggle till you try it for yourself.
If you don’t care to write one, good for you for knowing that! If it’s been on your list or you just like hearing what I have to say, keep on reading!
The amount of effort involved in keeping your children’s book under 1,000 words is wild. How do you tell a story to little ones without overdoing it? But also, how do you make sure you have enough details so your readers can connect with your story? Do you want to have a plot written in dialogue or a fun theme written in rhyme? What if you want the best of both worlds? And the list goes on and on and on…
THEN there are the little details you want your readers and their families to know that can’t be written in the story itself. For example, if I don’t tell you that I purposely excluded family members in my story to appeal to all kinds of families, you would never know that was my goal.
