Write Your First Picture Book
Learn with & get personal feedback from Best-Selling Author Scott Stuart in this 4-week online workshop.
Limited Spots to ensure the ability to give personal feedback
Welcome & Introduction
How to Submit Homework & Writing Tasks
Lesson: Ideas (The Good, The Bad & The Undeveloped)
Writing Task: Your First (Fast & Bad) Picture Book
Homework: Developing Your Idea
Weekly Zoom Q&A
Lesson: Characters, Quests & Really Bad Drafts
Writing Task: Rhyme vs Prose
Homework: Refining Your Idea & Outlining
Weekly Zoom Q&A
Lesson: Beginnings, Endings & Everything In-Between
Writing Task: Writing Emotion
Homework: Writing Your First Draft
Weekly Zoom Q&A
Lesson: A Metaphor For Life (Weaving Themes & Inclusivity Into Your Story)
Writing Task: Rewrite My Bad Draft
Homework: Editing Your Manuscript
Weekly Zoom Q&A
My Journey From Self-Publishing to Agent to Publisher
Finding & Working With An Illustrator (My Tips)
Finding An Agent (My Tips)
Getting Published (My Tips)
Limited spots available to ensure weekly personal feedback is possible.
The weekly lessons are pre-recorded videos that unlock every week during the course (and are then available forever).
The course begins on April 3rd - that is when the lessons for Week 1 will be available, and every Monday the next week's lessons will be unlocked.
During the course, there are mini writing assignments designed to improve your general writing ability (specifically as it relates to picture books), and homework assignments (specifically designed to get you to complete one full picture book during the course). Each week, you will have the ability to upload your assignments - Scott will film a personal video review/feedback/critique for you to access at the end of every week.
The weekly Zoom Q&A's will be held on Wednesday evenings (Melbourne time) - if you are unable to attend, you can pre-submit questions as the Q&A recording will be uploaded to the course platform each week.