Workshop: An Introduction to Writing for Children
and Young Adults
Here is an excerpt from my
one sheet for my novel Lightbearer.
It was set on the left hand side of the page with my bio on the bottom right.
On the actual one sheet it is framed in an invisible box, which sets the
following material up almost as a poem in 28 lines. This was important to me as
it helped visualize the tone of the story.
You’ll notice that it
gives genre, age category (implied by young man), main character, and story
question. Basically enough to see if anyone is interested. It’s still general
because I don’t know under what circumstances it will be read, so I’m not
giving all the details yet.
Concrete specifics will
come in the proposal. Then you will need to give the plot line and ending. Note
too that some of this introduction material also appears later on the back
cover as well as marketing text.
In
the land of Lorica, in a place beyond time where prophecies
have been lost in
ancient history and only myth
and legend remain
intertwined with history, a Ka’hane arrives.
“Ask yourself what
would fill you with shame or shrink
your soul to do day
after day. Ask yourself what would be worth
dying for or even
harder, living, for, with no hope of reward
or recognition or
assurance you had chosen rightly. Especially
when the Darkness
returns. What will you choose then?”
Jonne, a young man on
the brink of vocation in Lorica,
is jolted by the
stranger’s piercing remarks which lead him
to emotional,
spiritual, and relational struggles as he tries to discover
the timeless question
of his purpose and identity by becoming
a Lightbearer, a
vocation people no longer even believe exists
or is relevant. The
Lightbearers are a faithful remnant that stand
as watchmen for El
Olam, God everlasting.
Share:
What is your first question re this story after reading this invitation to read
it? Or what details would cause you to say not interested?
Read deep, marcy
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