Plot and Format Your Children's Book Bundle

Outline your children's book, then set it up on the page the way agents and editors expect.

Two things stop most first drafts. Not knowing what happens next, and not knowing what the page is supposed to look like.

You can picture your character and your opening scene. Then the middle goes soft, and you rewrite the same few pages waiting for the story to tell you where it's going. Or you get the whole story out, go to send it somewhere, and realize you have no idea where your name goes, how it should be spaced, or what an editor expects to see when they open the file.

This bundle covers both. Plotting Your Children's Book gives you the 3 plot outlines that work for children's books and shows you which one your story needs. Kidlit Formatting 101 shows you how to set that story up as a document an agent, editor, or illustrator can actually read.

Both courses, one price.

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN...

1. The 3 plot outlines available for children's books, and how to tell which one your story needs
2. How to build a complete plot outline, so you know what every scene is there to do
3. How the Hero's Journey maps onto a children's book, and where writers usually get it wrong
4. How to set up a story manuscript that agents, editors, and illustrators want to see
5. The writing basics every children's book manuscript has to follow, plus the techniques that make it more engaging to read

WHAT YOU'LL RECEIVE...

Plotting Your Children's Book

1. Creating your plot outline video lesson
2. Using the Hero's Journey plot outline video lesson
3. Picture book plot outlines with video examples
4. Bonus Picture Book Storytime video lesson
5. Printer-friendly fillable PDF workbook
6. 2-page fillable universal story plot outline

Kidlit Formatting 101

1. 3 video lessons on how to set up, format, and write a children's book
2. Fillable companion PDF workbook
3. The Children's Book Formatting Checklist
4. Customizable sample manuscript as both a Google Doc and a Word Doc
5. Sample story format examples for picture books and for chapter books and novels

Both courses are self-paced and come with lifetime access.

Who's this bundle for?

Writers who are somewhere in the middle of a first draft. If you can picture your character but can't work out what has to happen between the beginning and the ending, and you're not confident the file you're typing into looks the way it should, this is the pair that fixes both. It works whether you're writing a picture book, a chapter book, or a novel.

How soon will you get access?

Your login instructions arrive by email right after checkout. Your course invite follows within 24 to 48 hours, and it comes from Brooke Van Sickle via Podia, which hosts all our course content. Both courses arrive on the same invite, and if you've bought a course from us before, your existing login opens them too.

This is an online course bundle. Nothing physical will ship.

Please note: Our digital products are for personal use only. While you can use the fillable fields on your computer or print out the sheets yourself, you cannot share this with anyone else, make a copy, or use this for resale.