Writing For Children

There’s no doubt that writing for children is a real pleasure. And, once you have broken into the market you can make a very useful extra income from your writing. At the same time, you can have a lot of fun, satisfy your creative desires and gain a great deal of personal satisfaction from seeing your work published.

You don’t need any special qualifications to write for children. If you have a genuine desire to write and at least some creative imagination then we can help. We’ll show you the specific skills needed to write for this audience, help you find the age group and genre most suited to your writing and, importantly, you learn how to sell your work. In short, we give you everything you need for writing success.

The Writing for Children course we offer you, the personal tuition service and your Guarantees are fully explained in our Prospectus which you can download below. But, for a quick overview browse the tabs above.

Your Course

Writing for children has its own special skills and techniques and this course will teach them to you. It has been written by professional children’s writers who are willing to share their secrets of success.

You cover all aspects of writing for children including:

You learn about the different techniques needed for fiction and non-fiction. Plus, you are shown how to use the right language and tone for different age groups.

We also show you how to sell your work – presenting your manuscript, analysing your markets and contacting editors and publishers – to give your writing the best chance of being published.

Your course contains: 14 fascinating study modules and 15 writing assignments – 10 set and 5 open – marked by your personal tutor.

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Your studies are very flexible. You can study wherever you are – in the UK or abroad. You can adapt your study to suit your timetable. You can work when it suits you and you can start as soon as you are ready as there is no fixed enrolment date.

Your course materials are sent to you as soon as you enrol and are available immediately in the student community area when you enrol online.

You send and receive your assignments by post or by email – the choice is yours.

And, to make your course really effective you also receive personal guidance and advice from your tutor – a professional published writer. To find out more click the 'Tuition' tab above.

Your Personal Tuition

Undoubtedly, the best way to develop your writing is by doing it yourself, under the guidance of an expert tutor. This hands-on experience is essential to develop your writing skills. Because of this, your assignments are specially designed to get you writing copy that you can submit to editors as soon as your tutor advises.

You also receive advice on: style, subject matter, grammar, presentation and anything else that matters. You will be told how to improve your work – if improvement is necessary – and how to avoid the common errors and mistakes that many beginners make.

Your tutor will encourage you, be objective, be realistic but most of all give you constructive comment. This one-to-one guidance gives you a trusting and open environment to work in; so much so, that many students come to consider their tutor as a real friend as well as a mentor.

All our tutors are successful children’s writers. Each one is an experienced tutor who has been specially trained by us to help you overcome the difficulties, and the pitfalls, that all new writers face. From their own experiences they can help you to start writing, find new ideas and produce the sort of copy that sells. Click 'Selling' above for more details on how we can help you to sell your work.

Selling Your Writing

One of the biggest problems all new writers face is where and how to sell their writing. Don't let this worry you for now. A whole module is devoted to selling your writing and your tutor will advise you as needed throughout your course.

We show you:

• how to find markets and exploit them
• how to present your work
• when to send covering letters
• how and when to use an agent
• how to protect your copyright
• how to deal with editors and publishers

Plus, much more to give your writing the best possible chance of being published.

The effectiveness of this part of your tuition is proved by the success of our students. They regularly have their writing published – because our methods work. Once your writing has reached publishable standard you should have no difficulty in selling it. Follow our advice carefully, do everything we ask of you, and we are confident that – like many students before you – you will soon be a published writer.

Your Guarantees

Because of the effectiveness of the course, and the tuition service, we are able to give you three no-risk guarantees.

These state quite clearly:

1. If you have not earned your tuition fees from published writing within six months of completing your course, your full fees will be refunded.
2. You have the course on 15 day (in your possession) inspection.
3. We will give you a $15.00 refund for any assignment which is not corrected properly by your tutor.

These guarantees are your safeguard of a fair deal and high tuition standards from The Writers Bureau. They are our commitment to you.

Providing you play your part, you really can't lose! Either you will earn, as a minimum, the tuition fees (and we hope a lot more), or you will receive your money back in full.

Your Contribution

We can do a lot to help you but we cannot do it all for you. In fact, the major contribution must come from you.

In addition to your creative talent, you also need enthusiasm and perseverance. But you do not need to be either particularly gifted or very clever. There are many otherwise ordinary people, from ordinary backgrounds who, with determination and perseverance, have had a lot of fun, enjoyment and extra money from their writing.

So, if you really want to fulfil your writing ambitions and you are prepared to put in the time and effort required, then together we can make your writing dreams come true.

Your Certificate

A Certificate of Achievement is awarded to all successful students. You qualify for your Certificate as soon as you have earned your course fees from published writing. This may be near the beginning of your course, somewhere in the middle, or near the end. Whenever it is, you can be rightly proud of it and, we hope, it will be the start of great things to come.

How To Enrol

If you truly want to write for children there is no time like the present to start. It would be tragic to do nothing and then look back in a few years’ time and say, ‘If only…’ On the other hand, you could take action right now by enrolling today.

And remember, anybody can enrol on The Writers Bureau Writing for Children course. You do not need any special qualifications or background and you can start whenever it suits you.

So, click the enrol button below, Fax 00 44 161 236 9440 or complete the enrolment form and let’s start working together to help you become a published writer!

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Course Fees:

Full fees: $357

Easy Payment Plan: $40 deposit payable now and $55 a month for the following 6 months making $370 in all.

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