Writing Children'S Picture Books With Microsoft Word

Outlining, writing and copy editing a children's picture book with Microsoft Word and ProWritingAid

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.
Requirements
You'll need a copy of Microsoft Word to follow along.
You'll need either a copy of Grammarly or ProWritingAid to follow along with the automated copy editing section (see Course Resources for details).
Description
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

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Course Overview

Lecture 2 How to Watch This Course

Section 2: Setting Up Microsoft Word

Lecture 3 Optimize Your Microsoft Word Screen Layout

Lecture 4 Select and Edit Text

Lecture 5 Configure Normal Paragraph and Heading 1 Styles

Lecture 6 Addendum: Numbering Heading 1 Levels

Lecture 7 Introduction to Microsoft Word Project

Section 3: Outlining with the Navigation Pane

Lecture 8 Introduction to the Navigation Pane

Lecture 9 Children's Story Plots, People and Places

Lecture 10 Outline with Headings and the Navigation Pane

Lecture 11 Outlining with the Navigation Pane Project

Section 4: Writing with Style

Lecture 12 Length, Topic, Vocabulary and Style

Lecture 13 Modes of Narration

Lecture 14 Plotters vs Pantsters

Lecture 15 Writing with Style Project

Section 5: Intermission

Lecture 16 Please Leave a Review

Section 6: Writing with Microsoft Word and ProWritingAid

Lecture 17 Configuring Bold, Italic and Colored Text

Lecture 18 Spell Checking, Synonyms and the Thesaurus

Lecture 19 Maintain Age Appropriate Language with ProWritingAid

Lecture 20 Writing with Microsoft Word and ProWritingAid Project

Section 7: Copy Editing with ProWritingAid

Lecture 21 Introduction to Copy Editing

Lecture 22 Copy Edit Your Own Work with ProWritingAid

Lecture 23 Copy Edit Your Own Work with Grammarly

Lecture 24 Manually Copy Edit Your Own Work and Draft Others

Lecture 25 Copy Editing with ProWritingAid Project

Section 8: Conclusion

Lecture 26 Bonus Lecture

This course is intended for those new to writing children's picture books.,This course is also intended for old timers wishing to brush up on their children's picture book writing skills.