Writing for Children with Marie-Louise Gay

Writing for Children with Marie-Louise Gay

Writing a book for young children who cannot yet read is deceptively simple. How difficult can it be to write a story with fifty, two hundred or six hundred words? A manuscript barely 2, 3, or 4 pages long? Or writing for children who are beginning readers.

The difficulty lies in conveying emotion, developing characters and a plot, creating an arc and captivating children with so few words. But also, creating a child’s voice or visualizing a child’s point of view when our own childhood is far behind us. Participants will be doing short writing exercises to inspire and stimulate their inner child.

Target audience: This is a workshop for aspiring writers interested in writing picture-books and first novels.

Attendees should bring: Notebooks and writing materials.

Presented in partnership with the Guelph Public Library