Kids are such varied people that in no other part of our population will you find so many differences among one group. Writing for children demands that those that write try to be just as varied. This creates a dilemma for the writer in not always knowing what to write about. One minute, it can seem as if there are a million ideas just waiting to be explored, and the next, it appears as if every topic imaginable has already been done.
Many people wrongly assume that writing for children is easy.
They apparently have not tried to write the perfect children s story. You know the one aimed at two to four year olds, or even one for the never easy to please pre-teen group. Look around you, and I mean, really look around you. Do not think that you can sit in front of your computer screen all day and ideas will just pop right into your head. There may be a lucky few that have such an easy time, but for the most of us, it is going to take some work, some hard work, on our part to generate ideas to fill all those pages.