| Picture Writing (Write for kids library) |  | Author: Anastasia Suen
Publisher: Writers Digest Books
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 97,130
Media: Paperback
Edition: First edition.
Pages: 224
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 0.7
ISBN: 1582970726
Dewey Decimal Number: 808.068
EAN: 9781582970721
ASIN: 1582970726
Publication Date: January 1, 2003
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Product Description
Picture Writing is the newest book in the Write for Kids Library. In this book, successful children's book author Anastasia Suen shows readers how to use descriptive language to create vivid stories for kids. Like the other books in the Write for Kids Library, Picture Writing takes a hands-on approach. Two features of this book - the Try It Yourself exercises and the words of advice from other successful authors - have become staples of the Writer's Digest Write for Kids Library. These features complement the basic instruction, helping writers to practice what they've learned even as they're still reading the book, and provide sparks for new projects. Picture Writing will give children's book writers the tools they need to create and use description in their own writing.
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 A GREAT WAY TO HAVE THIS CHILDREN'S WRITER WORK WITH YOU! January 15, 2003
Lizanne (New Jersey, USA)
35 out of 35 found this review helpful
Reading and using this book is almost the same as taking Anastasia's online Intensive Picture Book courses. In fact in some ways it's like taking IPB 3 ! Anastasia leads writers a few steps further than many "how to write for children" books do. The exercises help you study and discover what works while they also set up habits of keeping a writer's journal for you to think about your writing process, and a reader's log to keep track of what you've read. There's something for everyone- from board books to YA, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Make sure to check out the great info in marketing and in each appendix!
An INCREDIBLE book!!! January 25, 2003
Jessie Mitchell
19 out of 21 found this review helpful
This is the BEST book ever written on the art of writing for children and young adults - and I have read most of them! Suen provides essential insider information that gives aspiring authors the confidence to pursue their writing dreams. If you want to write for young people - whether infants or high schoolers - you must read this book!!!
Great for beginner to intermediate children's writers February 25, 2009
donalyn (Maryland)
The way she breaks down the different categories in children's literature alone is worth the price. Very in-depth knowledge so that the stories you write match the categories that the publishers are looking for. If you're not an author/illustrator, it helps us authors "see" our pic books in our mind's eye so we can write them visually better. Highly recommended!
Glad that I persevered November 22, 2009
Miguel F. De Espinosa
I had left this book in the shelves for quite a long time. To be honest, I did not like the first pages, which revolve around the standards of the children/young adult markets (how many pages in a picture book and so on).
Recently, though, I've challenged myself to either finish or abandon a few half read books on my shelves. I started over again, and finally, I could see this book is a gem for re-writing. There's some basic advice on writing, that's true, but what it really hooked me, were two things:
1.- The use of a writer's diary to reflectively learn from other works, focusing in what worked and did not work in them, and...
2.- A step by step, systematical, yet full of heart, graphic approach to revising and rewriting.
 Wrong Title August 30, 2007
C. Rueda (colombia)
7 out of 12 found this review helpful
This is not a book about Picture Writing. It is about how a writer can "direct" an illustrator(p.24 in the book). This is not how it actually works in picture books. The author can make notes for the artist as a guidance, but not give directions.
It is obviously written by a non-visual person. If you want a book about Picture Writing, look at Uri Shulevitz Writing with Pictures.
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