How to Self-Edit Your Picture Book
You Can Spend $1000s to Pay for Manuscript Critiques. Or You Can Learn to Edit Your Own Picture Books Like a Pro.
with Natascha Biebow
An exclusive WriteForKids Session™
Who It’s For: Picture book writers who want to sharpen their manuscripts – and improve their craft – by learning how to self-edit their work.
What It Does: You’ll learn Natascha’s system of Macro & Micro Editing that will help you boost impact, cut unnecessary words and dramatically improve any picture book manuscript.
What You Get: Lifetime Access to the Full Workshop + PDF Handout.
If you don’t know how to edit your picture book manuscript, you can:
a. Spend $1000s on critique services
b. Wallpaper your writing space with rejection letters or….
c. Let a professional author & editor teach you how to confidently self-edit any picture book!
Not too tough a choice, right?
But here’s the hard part: How can you find someone who can teach you the delicate art of picture book editing without bombarding you with jargon, complex explanations and massive learning curves?
Relax. We’ve already found her. 😀
Join editor and author Natascha Biebow for How to Self-Edit Your Picture Book, a comprehensive workshop for writers & writer/illustrators that will teach you how to reshape and fix any picture book manuscript.
The secret? Natascha’s simple but powerful system of Micro Edits & Macro Edits.
This complete workshop (with lifetime access and an exclusive PDF handout packed with useful info) will take the mystery out of writing (and illustrating) funny picture books and give you a true understanding of what makes children laugh — and how to put that knowledge directly to work.
See what Natascha’s students have to say about
How to Self-Edit Your Picture Book
You’ll learn:
How to use Macro Editing to improve your book and ensure that your character motivation & hook are rock solid.
How to improve your pacing, page turns and climax.
How to use Micro Editing to optimize your word choice and delete unnecessary verbiage.
How to create vivid scenes using the right words to show, not tell.
How to delete unnecessary repetition and sub-plots.
How to take all these changes and seamlessly re-knit your story into a much stronger picture book.
…and much more!
It’s the simplest, most powerful picture book editing system we’ve ever seen, and you’ll learn it all – and you’ll use it the rest of your writing life!
Natascha Biebow is the founder of literary consultancy Blue Elephant Storyshaping and Editorial Director of Five Quills Press.
She has 30 years’ experience commissioning and editing award-winning picture books and young fiction for large and small publishers. In 2018, Natascha was awarded an MBE in recognition for her services to children’s writers and illustrators, and the Stephen Mooser SCBWI Member of the Year in 2019. She is the long-standing Regional Advisor of SCBWI British Isles and a member of the SCBWI Advisory Council.
Natascha is the author of The Crayon Man: The True Story of the Invention of Crayola Crayons, winner of the Irma Black Award for Excellence in Children’s Literature and NSTA Best STEM book. As an author herself, she understands just how challenging it is to dream up ideas, revise and finesse your book, pitch and hope to get published, deal with rejection and re-imagine, stay motivated and keep up with the business, fit being creative into your life, and constantly work to become a better writer or illustrator.
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Incredible presentation, Natascha. Absolutely fabulous!
Evelyn
Lifetime Access to the Full Workshop & Handouts
Nothing More to Pay!
Full 90+ minute workshop!
Info-packed PDF Handout
Just $67!
