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If you think you can just grab a pen and paper or handy-dandy laptop and jump right into writing, you’re right! But you may also want to consider what might happen when your life starts to intrude on your writing time. How do you work around the children needing to be fed and your desk being buried under mounds of bills and old homework? How do you figure out the best time to write? In Chapter 5, we talk about the importance of making a writing schedule and sticking to it. We also emphasize finding a space of your own for writing and making that space conducive to productivity and creativity.

After you figure out how to get to work, you have to decide what you’re going to write about. Coming up with an interesting idea for a story isn’t necessarily as easy as you may think, which is why we provide a lot of ways to boot up your idea factory in Chapter 6. We also have ways to get you unstuck if you find yourself with an annoying case of writer’s block.

As soon as you have your good idea, you need to get out there and research to make sure the idea fits your target audience. We cover the hows and whys of researching your audience, figuring out what children like and what they see as important in their lives, and then researching the topic itself in Chapter 7.