Pitch Writing for Non-fiction Picturebooks
Researching and Planning Contents 2
A course by Isabel Thomas , Science Writer and Children's Book Author
Joined April 2021
Joined April 2021
About the video: Researching and Planning Contents 2
Overview
“I've planned my content digitally, but it's always a good idea to turn to the paper and start sketching some visual ideas for the book. It doesn't matter if you're not an illustrator. This part is really about getting a better sense of how content and illustrations might flow together within the structure of your book.”
In this video lesson Isabel Thomas addresses the topic: Researching and Planning Contents 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
“ Researching and Planning Contents Although I don't illustrate my own picture books, I always think visually when I plan a non-fiction picture book. This is so important, as a picture book is always a marriage of text and images. Even though it's not me providing those ultimate illustrations, it's difficult to plan the story without thinking about that flow of different images through the book. Earlier, you saw me plan content digitally on the screen, start to play with ideas and with the flow of content. Often, I switch to storyboarding by hand to do some quick sketches and start thinking...”
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Course summary for: Pitch Writing for Non-fiction Picturebooks
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Areas
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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