Exciting Message: Exciting Story

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Here’s today’s writing tip:

If we want to include a message in a story we are writing for children, we need to do it through the vehicle of an exciting and gripping plot. However valid and earnest our message, we will not engage our readers unless the story is thrilling too.

Some of the unsolicited manuscripts we receive at Dernier have a good moral or spiritual lesson, but the stories just aren’t exciting enough.

So if you can include heaps of adventure and danger, mystery and drama, aliens and underpants, grandmas with superpowers… you are much more likely to get your message across – and your readers will love your story!

May the Lord lead and guide you as you write.

Keep writing, because only you can write your story!

Janet

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