Tips for Writing Children’s Books: How to Incorporate “The Slow Reveal”
In life most people become more complex as we get to know them. This should also be true for characters in children’s books. At a conference I recently attended, Lyron Bennett, editor for Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, called it “the slow reveal”. It means investing your characters with enough varied qualities that some can be withheld until called for in the plot.
Developing Characters
Fiction, biography, history, adventure stories – they all have one thing in common: they’re all about people. Too often, such works are simply variations on the seven-word biography:
he was born, grew up, and died.
Such writing merely offers readers lists – of facts, of dates, places, relationships, experiences and accomplishments, what [...]
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