Novel Story - Writing Books for Children - How to get ideas and inspiration

Write means a captivating story for young readers that a world that will keep their interest and the characters they will refer to create. So where your ideas? We speak to author of books for children successfully, Anna Fienberg, drawing on his own life - and how to tap into your imagination.
Almost all the books by Anna were listed as notable books of the Children's Book Council. recent book by Anna for older readers is a number eight, a boy with a passion for odd and even numbers, the errors.
They are available in part on the basis of his son. "He especially likes the number eight," says Anna. "Very often have ... if he chewed, he would chew twice on one side and two on the other side, and his peas one on the plate before eating and so on. And if all long enough, but I am glad to say that there seems to be over that now. "
Based on fairy tales
Anna is known for his series of books known Tashi. Currently there are 15 in the series, the latest is called "Tashi and the Phoenix." Anna says she often has stories that affect the adventures of the protagonist Tashi. 'I think they actually are based on fairy tales very often, "says Anna. "There is such diversity is, you know, observe and interpret messages. I think we all rewrite any ideas on the basis of our own world. For example, I love this character Grandma bad Russian and Czech and Polish fairy tales. And the room was actually forbidden on the basis of Bluebeard and The Magic Flute, where the stranger comes to town and it is an invasion of locusts.
"Fairy tales, though fictional, it is obvious that they really highlight real human drama and conflict, is not it?"
However, their inspiration is not to come as a fairy tale. It can also come from real life. "I remember Tashi lost in the whole city came directly from the day my son was about eight, and he had lost about seven minutes to Darling Harbor, but it was the most terrible of seven minutes, I think of my life ... There is a tendency to work out your anxiety through stories. "
A difficult journey
Although many people think that writing for young readers, is all sweetness and light, it can be a difficult and dark. Anna is what the experience when she wrote Light, a young girl Borrowed 16-year-old who becomes pregnant and feels alienated from his family. It was her first book for young adults.
"It was indeed a very difficult book to write," she said. "I wanted to write about adolescence and the search for themselves ... I tend to write from the inside ... so you push and then I was back to ... being 16 and thinking about how they felt how life is estimated at this point. I had written especially fantasy before that date, but I wanted to write a true story. But I could not find my way or we, what you know rather dark place. "
Although this book in fear and real life was rooted many books include Anna ideas and magical experiences. "I think the magic for me has always felt very close to the dream world," she said. "] I like the way it is more than a Freudian [of the world. You may be the only one dreaming of the shoe, but really it is your soul. I believe the magic and fairy tales, and so are profound symbols - such as the dreams. And if in some sense, I think, I think icons for my own dreams - and what I read, and - refer to the experience of the character of real life. I try to know them to be considered. "
Living in the world you created
If you are in the world of the characters that you create to live, it can be disappointing if the end of the world at last - when you finally finished your story. Anna says she wants to discover and inhabit the world to come in his letter. "I read about writers say when they write a book, they have ideas for the next," she said. "[But] I have long drought periods of the great novels. You know I'm still in mourning about the past and thinking about the next one - but it's so wonderful when it happens, you know.
"It's like being in love. You know if you saw someone at a bus stop and you know, you know kind of look in his face - and you, that will change your world know. Well, a bit of c is. He falls out of nothing. And I just know it. "
As a prolific writer, Anna understands the importance of discipline when it comes to his job. However, it also has unexpected rituals in his work routine. "I always thought I would wipe the kitchen sink, what is really important, and have things right, you know. Otherwise, I feel chaotic and I left things in disarray before entering the other world," admits Anna . "It's a bit of a ritual with the kitchen sink and I walk my dog now, too. The act of walking is really beautiful. It freed you, it's almost like a passage from the real world into the imaginary world."
Good for you
For aspiring writers, "said Anna" is good for you. " "I feel like I years with the critics on my shoulders and said, you know," The demand for a phrase? Why do you even bother to write?
"I think that writing a little like dreaming while you are awake and have to dream and then have the material there. And there is the excitement and discovery to edit and format and on. And if this editor on your shoulder too much and too strong, it can really write to stop the flow and the whole reason. "