Referred to as “one of the greatest storytellers for children of the 20th century,” Roald Dahl still doesn’t get the credit he’s owed. Happily, when he wasn’t busy (and sometimes when he was,) Dahl was happy to talk about his writing process and offer advice to budding authors. Let’s see what he had to say.
The Flesch Reading Ease test and the Flesch–Kincaid (F–K) Grade Level test use the lengths of words and sentences in a piece of writing to determine its relative ease of reading.
Children are some of the most unique, misunderstood, and infuriating creatures on the planet. One moment they’ll astonish you with words of wisdom beyond their years, and the next, they’ll exasperate you with their stubbornness. It’s hard enough to write about children, but to write from a child’s perspective can sometimes push writers to the …
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Few of us who were children in the nineties made it through childhood without consuming at least one of Anthony Horowitz’s action-packed YA spy thrillers. His Alex Rider series was (and remains) incredibly popular, but that’s not to forget his The Gatekeepers series, his Sherlock Holmes novels, his TV and film writing, or the dozens …
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