Pitch Writing for Non-fiction Picturebooks
Generating Ideas 2
A course by Isabel Thomas , Science Writer and Children's Book Author
Joined April 2021
Joined April 2021
About the video: Generating Ideas 2
Overview
“Now I'll scrutinize those initial sparks of inspiration to choose the best ideas to pitch. You’ll see how I come up with the idea of writing a picture book about invasive species, with the first of our three key ingredients: links to popular themes.”
In this video lesson Isabel Thomas addresses the topic: Generating Ideas 2, which is part of the Domestika online course: Pitch Writing for Non-fiction Picturebooks. Learn how to form a captivating idea for a picturebook and develop it into a professional book proposal that engages publishers.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Generating Ideas Another important way to pin down your ideas is to start to think, even at this early stage, about which section of a bookshop your idea might sit in. The second good way to pin down your focus is to start imagining you're in a children's bookshop, or even better, go and visit one and look at the shelves. One of the first things that you'll note is that the shelves are arranged more thematically than they are in the children's fiction department. We'll find that the books are divided up into categories such as nature, science, space. If you go and look at those shelves in...”
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Course summary for: Pitch Writing for Non-fiction Picturebooks
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Children's Illustration, Children's Literature, Creative Writing, Narrative, Non-Fiction Writing, Picturebook, Storyboard, Storytelling, Writing
Isabel Thomas
A course by Isabel Thomas
Isabel Thomas is an award-winning science writer and children's book author based near Cambridge, UK. She studied engineering science, then human sciences at the University of Oxford, during which time she worked at the student newspaper and fell in love with journalism. After graduating, Isabel worked as a then-trainee editor at a local publishing house where she began writing short books for beginner readers and working on her passion for writing in her spare time.
Isabel has since published more than 180 books in over 30 languages. Her critically-acclaimed book Moth: An Evolution Story won the AAAS Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books 2020 and was named a book of the summer by the Financial Times. She has also been shortlisted for other prizes including the Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize. As well as this Isabel writes features for children’s science magazines, creates non-fiction resources for organizations such as the BBC, and speaks at festivals, schools, and other events.
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