Tips on Writing Stories for Children

After reading articles on tips for writing children stories, there was a lot of information I found helpful. Particularly, I found the tips provided under "Story Structure" most informative. It helped me to understand the areas I should look more closely into before creating a story for children. How to alternate between scenes, as well as ways to cut narration short, were all things that made my understanding of the topic more advanced. In the section involving "Style and Tone" the author of the article explained how you must be quick, and short in your sentencing. Children are easily bored, and in order to keep their attention at hand, you must be simple with your words, but full of movement. This made me get a better idea on the style of story I should create.


Similar to my previous blog post on "Analyzing Children Stories", the article talks a lot about characterizing, and theme. It talked of being descriptive of your character, but doing it in a way that develops dialogue.  Rather than coming out and saying, as a narrator: "Ashley has purple hair", you can simply have a character state: "I like your purple hair, Ashley!".  Also, the author speaks of the theme, and ways to portray it, without coming right out and saying it. They explained how to allow your theme to come out through the plot, and development, of the story.


Information that I found helpful in the "Writing Good Dialogue" article would be the three points that one should aim for in dialogue:

1. Reveal characters’ relationships to one another. 
2. Move the story forward. 
3. Increase the tension.

I found these helpful for when I move on to creating dialogue. You do not want to create unnecessary information, or confusion, with speech that does not add to the plot of your story. Also, the article was effective in providing examples, and ideas of how to use these tips in our own stories. With this article, you can do all of this efficiently.


To me, assessing this particular assignment should involve creativity and inventiveness. When creating a children's story, you want to be as creative as possible. Children have wild minds, they will believe, or be entertained by almost anything. Yet, stories that follow usual boys or girls are not as attention catching as one about, say a hedgehog and his sister. This should be added to our rubric.