Once you have gathered together a few ideas, you need to decide what you will do with them. Do you want to write a picture book or a novel, will you publish yourself or submit to a professional publisher? Publishers have certain criteria you must meet, make sure you’re aware of these before you start.

How will you tell the story? From whose point of view? This will also depend on the characters in your story, and the direction you want the story to take. Finding the narrator position in a story can sometimes be the most difficult part and can often let down an otherwise good plot if not done correctly.

Reading childrens books will help you get a feel for how this is done. Writing in the first person from the main characters point of view is often the most acceptable and can also be relatively easy. A close relationship can be developed with the reader as they experience the story through the main characters thoughts and feelings, but make sure you can stick with it throughout the story.

Take some time to work on the introduction to the story, it is here in the first few lines that you will capture or lose the reader. For young children introducing the character/s first is essential to get them interested. Raising a question they need answered and a clue to the environment is also important. Achieving all of this in the first few lines of the story can be tricky but worth the effort.

Go over your ideas, explore them, play with them and see where they take you.

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If this is what stops you don’t be discouraged there are many ways to find inspiration. As much as you can, take what inspires you and make it your own. Taking themes or plots from previously successful stories can sometimes be the beginning of the road to rejection, you really need to draw on your own imagination as much as you can. You will get better at this with time and continued effort.

The important thing to remember is not to allow yourself to get discouraged, that serves no one. If you’re really having a hard time coming up with ideas take some time out, call it your Inspiration Time, go for a walk in the park or the beach, meditate or do whatever it is that relaxes you. Ideas go out you have to give them some ground to come in, relax your mind, don’t stress.

Creating a fertile mind that is open to recieving inspiration is your first step, it will allow you to see all the opportunities for stories around you. Sure you may repeat old themes or ideas but they will have a uniquely ‘you’ slant to them, you will begin to develop your own writers voice.

With the foundations above you have some tools that will allow inspiration to work for you. So now you just need to get active in looking just as you go about your day with notepad and pen handy jot down ideas as you see them. Like a detective you are on a mission, there a clues all around you find them and build on them.

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