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Middle Grade Made Easy(er) brings you actionable writing craft advice on how to outline, write and revise a middle-grade novel for 8 to 12-year-old readers.
Tune in twice a month to join developmental editor and author, Lou Piccolo, and learn the art of writing middle grade without the overwhelm.
Whether you're trying to find a way into your novel, are stuck somewhere in the middle, need to revise but don’t know how, or are looking for tips to stay motivated to finish your novel, each episode offers practical guidance you can apply to your work in progress.
Middle Grade Made Easy(er) is the right podcast for you if you have read all the craft books but need someone to guide you through the practical process of:
→ outlining a middle-grade novel
→ plotting your story
→ creating engaging characters
→ writing authentic dialogue
→ staying the course to finish your novel
Here’s something I tell all my clients:
Start here, start now, just start. Tomorrow’s you will be grateful that today’s you did.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
every 16 days
Average audio length:
10 minutes
English
United Kingdom
23 episodes
since Dec. 19, 2023
episodic
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If you spend a lot of time worrying about how to write the perfect opening chapter for your middle-grade novel or whether you should end your chapters on a cliffhanger, then you're going to love writing in scenes!
In this episode, we'll cover:
the difference between scenes and chapters
t…
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Word count may seem like the least of your concerns when you're thinking about writing a middle-grade novel. You've got story type, plot, theme, character development, pacing, and who knows what else to consider, right?
But here's the thing: knowing industry-standard guidelines for t…
You may have taken all the writing classes and read all the craft books on writing, and you may theoretically know everything you need to know to write your middle-grade novel, but if you have only managed the theory of writing without managing your mindset, you are going to encounter fear at some …
Books help kids make sense of the world through story, but they can only do that if the books they read have an underlying meaning to them.
That's where theme comes in.
In this episode, we're going to look at how theme can help you write your novel, and create a story that will send kids…
What's more important for your novel: great language or great story?
If you answered 'great story', you've got it right!
While great language is important too, it won't carry your story idea through a full-length middle-grade novel and, by itself, it's not a story.
…
You have a great story idea but you don't know how to turn it into a fully developed middle-grade novel that publishers want to buy and readers will love.
What to do?
This episode on the ten universal story types will help you:
identify your novel's story type
find a way into your story
…
In this bonus episode, I will take the eight key questions we looked at in the last episode on how to get to know the ideal middle-grade reader for your novel, and apply them to Kate DiCamillo's middle-grade novel Because of Winn-Dixie.
This episode will show you what the process of fleshing …
If you want to be the type of middle-grade writer who creates books with characters who feel like real people, and transports kids out of their own world into the imaginary one you have created in such a way that they lose themselves and actually feel some sort of grief when the book ends…
… then …
So, you want to write a middle-grade novel.
Maybe you have an idea that just won't let you be. Or maybe you've spent years writing picture books, and you'd like to try something different?
But when you sit down in front of your computer… well, you don't quite know how to start.…
Strong voice is important in all fiction, but it's vital in middle grade.
Why?
Because kids between 8 and 12, who are almost ready to leave early childhood behind and embark on big adventures, need a safe way to do so.
How do they do it?
Through the characters in middle-grade novels who a…
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