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Mentoring Writers Resource Box episodes
- P032 A Quick Guide to Writing A Picture BookWriting for children is both a joy and a privilege as we authors are involved at the beginning of many children's learning through our books. Here we offer you a quick guide on the basics off how to start writing a picture book for children.22 min
- B022 MANAGING MENTAL CHAOS WHILE WRITINGWhen the world or your problems start to get you down but you need to write how do you cope? Here we try and offer you some useful tips which hopefully will help you achieve your goals despite those pressures.14 min
- P031 WRITING AUDIO DRAMAThe unique quality of ‘audio drama’ allows writers to build a private and exclusive picture in the mind of each separate member of the audience. If you fancy having a go at writing for audio drama then check out what Neville Teller has to say here.15 min
- B021 CRISIS V CONFLICTGood storytellers differentiate between a crisis and conflict; whilst beginning authors often focus on the exciting crisis rather than the conflict that makes readers care about the characters enduring the crisis. Here's why you should try both.12 min
- P030 SUBMITTING TO LITERARY JOURNALS AND MAGAZINESYou’ve written your book and need to promote it. One way of doing it is to find ways of advertising through literary journals and magazines. It's a good way to link your book to local interest subjects. Here's how.9 min
- B020 HOW TO PROMOTE YOUR HORROR BOOKThis blog podcast looks at the way movie makers use trailers to advertise their movie and how you can utilise and adapt their techniques to promote your horror book.7 min
- P029 WRITING A CHILDRENS BOOK PT2In the 2nd part of this podcast about writing a children's book we continue with working with an illustrator, how to revise, how to edit and cut out the dross and finally how to publish.20 min
- P028 WRITING A CHILDRENS BOOK PT1This two-part podcast concentrates on some easy steps to writing a children's book. We start with generating a concept that works, creating a character children will love, knowing the length to write and structuring a good plot.18 min
- B019 HOW TO ORGANISE A STORYTELLING SESSIONWhether you are doing it live or online you should always be prepared when it comes to doing storytelling sessions. Here are a few tips and ideas to help get you started.8 min
- P027 TIPS TO CREATE A GOOD AUTHOR WEBSITEEvery author should have a website that compliments their written work. In this podcast Award-winning website creator and author, Ann Brady offers you some tips to help create a good author website.13 min
About Mentoring Writers Resource Box
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Mentoring Writers Resource Box podcasts offer new and developing authors assistance as they travel their writing journey (whether self- or traditionally published). We mentor adult writers of all ages worldwide while mentoring under 18's through our sister organisation Kids4Kids.org.uk. With over thirty years’ experience as an award-winning author, speaker, writing mentor, and publishing consultant our Principle Mentor, Ann Brady, offers practical tips which will help new writers open the door to discovering the many facets of creating, developing and writing a book. We also offer advice on marketing and the publishing aspect of the writing process. Each of the 10-to-20-minute episodes are fact-based, conversational mentoring sessions which will help keep you focused, increase your confidence, and bolster your creativity whilst helping you write.
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