Lessons in Creative Writing | Childrens Name Book | RubyBooks

Children literacy and personalised books 6 Children, stories have always been a big feature in our household, an even bigger part of our lives for almost 30 years has been children’s literacy. As an author and a dad of 6 Children, stories have always been a big feature in our household, an even bigger part of our lives for almost 30 years has been children literacy and personalised books and making sure that all of my children developed the same love of books that I have. My Ruby & the Skinny Monkey series of books came about as a result of one of my daughters, Ruby, having to spend time in hospital as a tiny toddler, having some of her teeth removed, children literacy and personalised books which was a very frightening and upsetting experience for her. I wrote her a story about it so she could understand her treatment and what was going to happen better which helped her a lot to deal with what otherwise was a traumatic experience. Since then I’ve written a lot of ...

Lessons in creative writing. Creating and naming characters in a story. Sometimes the story itself can flow quite easily, it can, for example simply spring from an emotion or an experience while out and about. Actually I remember an incident whilst I was out in my car which involved some people parked on the side of the road in a lay-by, at a local beauty spot eating sandwiches and crisps and all sorts. The scene was quite awful, there was quite literally rubbish all around them in this beautiful viewpoint parking spot which they had strewn around all round the car, there were four of five children and adolescents running about, the parents were just sitting there in stripy deck chairs, just as if they were all at the beach. It was quite unbelievable and made me so angry that the parents simply let the children thoughtlessly throw litter of all types, cans, bottles and crisp packets anywhere on the ground even though there were bins right nearby. Of course I challenged th...