which I hope to get turned into a book for children. However I have just roughly counted the amount of words and it is only about 500. Do you think this is long enough. Sensible answers only please.
2007-03-12 23:42:58 · 14 answers · asked by The Way 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
It is written fro ages 5-9 approx
2007-03-12 23:49:34 · update #1
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2007-03-13 03:06:06 · answer #1 · answered by Gen•X•er (I love zombies!) 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Age 5-9 is a massive age difference. You would be advised to aim for the 5 yr old market. Personally I wouldn't particularly care how long it was (ten pages would seem sufficient). You could have the plot in text going on at the bottom of the page but also have dialog balloons of what the characters are saying. Illustrations are just as important if not more important than the words. Illuminated text like old prayer books and Bibles would be quite neat. You could do it in 'rebuses', pictorial representations of the word. That is, an eye could be a drawing of an eye, for a boat you insert a picture of a boat in the text. I used to like that as a kid in the day.
2007-03-13 09:42:04 · answer #2 · answered by neologycycles 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Write a little bit more like 500 more.
Then use loads of pictures.
Children in this age, can not read very well, but they understand looking the pictures.
If u look at other children books for this age, they have 1 to 2 sentences a page, and a big picture
Do the same thing.
I would love to read ur story.
Good luck to u and to ur book.
This is a wonderful job, to do!!>
I hope all the best.
And from 1 book maybe one day this will became, 2,3,4,5,.....100 books.
2007-03-13 06:54:47 · answer #3 · answered by iona 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Look at the latest Harry Potter books. Word count doesn't matter provided the children are interested in the material.
2007-03-13 06:46:26 · answer #4 · answered by Plasmapuppy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A story can be told in 500 words if they are put right. Children dont have long attention spans so I guess using filler material for word cound would be a mistake.
As many have suggested before, use lots of pictures.
2007-03-13 06:58:53 · answer #5 · answered by Maranello 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends on the age group. If it is for five year olds they don't need much. 500 words will not generate you much money. A professional writer gets £100 a thousand
2007-03-13 16:41:42 · answer #6 · answered by Professor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well it reall depends i know its a kids book but dose it have picutres in it im assuming that it dose if it dose then it should be fine but kids should probley be reading chapter books by nine like in florida they have the reding by nine progam so if its a picture book it should probley be the age groups of 3-7 or 8 thats just a sugestion though you do whatever you want to do its your book 500 words is probley a good amount of words for the book your writing
2007-03-13 10:14:20 · answer #7 · answered by Matthew B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends the age range of your target audience. Look at some similar books that retail with illustrations. Submit it to an agent or a publisher. Recommend you look in your library and find the latest edition of the Writer's Handbook.
2007-03-13 06:48:09 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
For that age, 500 words are good enough. I wrote one with about 8000 words.
2007-03-13 08:53:08 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
For what age children?
I think the quality of the story matters more, and there's no harm in giving it a try.
2007-03-13 06:46:59 · answer #10 · answered by KyLeth 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋