Lifestyle Learning Direct

Discover the satisfaction of writing for a younger audience!

Do you have a creative imagination that appeals to children? Want to learn how you can turn your dream of becoming a writer into a profitable career by becoming a children’s author?

What a joy it is to write for children: a special skill in its own right. Children’s stories must appeal to young lively imaginations, while being easy to follow, but never condescending. The biggest difference between writing for children and writing for adults is that children are often the more critical audience. They are also avid readers, so there is a market in stories for children of all ages.

Different age groups call for different writing styles and construction, which you study as part of your course. You explore the delicate business of distilling ideas and experience into exciting stories for children. You also learn vocabulary and story construction for each age group, study the importance and skills of natural dialogue, learn how to hold children’s interest and how to make them identify with your storytelling.
 
Lifestyle Learning Direct’s Writing for Children course will improve your writing skills and teach you the fundamentals of writing for the younger audience. Throughout the five modules and eight assignments, you learn how to write for each specific target age group, and also how to ensure the book captures their imaginations and hearts. From finding ideas, creating credible characters and developing plots, to selecting a genre, presentation and getting published, we teach you all the skills you need to successfully achieve your writing ambition.

Key areas of learning - Writing for Children course

• Getting started
• Seeing with new perspective
• Writing for pre-teenagers
• Writing for the teenage market
• Getting your writing published

Additional materials included in the Writing for Children - correspondence course

Specialised writing reference library!

LIMITED TIME ONLY - ENROL online in a correspondence course by 31 May 2012 and pay in full, OR enrol and pay your instalments by credit card to receive an entry into the AUD$2,500 Cash Prize Draw!

Delivery Options

Correspondence - paper version

Correspondence - CD-ROM version

Online -  (click on the link below for further details on pricing and enrolment)

For CD-ROM Part Payment options, please contact Student Services.

To enrol, simply click on your preferred delivery below. Did you know you can SAVE, by completing this course online and paying upfront?