Outlining, writing and copy editing a children’s picture book with Microsoft Word and ProWritingAid
Hello,
What you’ll learn
- Use the Microsoft Word Navigation Pane to outline your children’s picture book. Use Heading 1 levels to outline the pages in your children’s picture book..
- Use Microsoft Word to write your children’s picture book. Use word writing assist tools such as automated spell checking, synonyms and the thesaurus..
- Use the Grammarly or ProWritingAid Microsoft Word plugins to automate the process of copy editing your book for spelling, grammar and style errors..
- Manually copy edit your manuscript to be sure by reading it backward out loud to find the greatest number of errors..
Course Content
- Introduction –> 3 lectures • 8min.
- Setting Up Microsoft Word –> 5 lectures • 35min.
- Outlining with the Navigation Pane –> 4 lectures • 20min.
- Writing with Style –> 4 lectures • 19min.
- Intermission –> 1 lecture • 1min.
- Writing with Microsoft Word and ProWritingAid –> 4 lectures • 11min.
- Copy Editing with ProWritingAid –> 5 lectures • 33min.
- Children’s Picture Book Writing Workshop –> 3 lectures • 15min.
- Additional Material –> 1 lecture • 3min.
- Deprecated Original Material –> 3 lectures • 26min.
- Conclusion –> 2 lectures • 4min.
Requirements
Hello,
Welcome to my course, Writing Children’s Picture Books with Microsoft Word.
In this course, I explain how to use Microsoft Word to write a children’s picture book. The course begins by explaining how to optimize your Microsoft Word screen real estate and quickly moves on to outlining your children’s book. It then explains the how to write your book using assist from Word and ProWritingAid. The course concludes with information on copy editing your own work using ProWritingAid and manually.
Learn to write children’s picture books even if you’re not a very good writer.
My name is Brian Jackson. I’m the instructor of the course. I’m also the writer of over one dozen books, publisher of well over 100 Amazon Kindle e-books and instructor with almost 40 Udemy courses to my name.
In this course, I demonstrate using Microsoft Word to write a children’s picture book. More specifically, I address the following topics in detail:
- Optimizing your Word screen real estate and setting up your writing environment.
- Outlining your book using the Microsoft Word Navigation Pane.
- Writing your book using Microsoft Word and ProWritingAid.
- Copy editing your own work with Microsoft Word and ProWritingAid.
Learn to write professional quality children’s picture books the easy way.
I am directing this course to writers new to writing Amazon children’s picture books and those old timers wanting to brush up their writing and Microsoft Word skills.
Whichever is the case, I look forward to joining you on a journey through the lectures ahead.
I’ll see you in the classroom,
—Brian