How to Find and Create Story Ideas for Children and Young People

Get yourself back to the Garden

Most months I’ll be posting some piece on writing for young people. This is July’s.

The real task of a children’s writer is to revisit the Garden that was childhood—the one we are not supposed to be able to return to. But we have to find our way back in order to create believable and useful stories… and then to go beyond “believable and useful,” to take…