How to Create a Book

Have you ever wanted to create a book? In this how to guide will shown an organized way of how to create a picture book for kids.

Creating a book will help your writing and drawling skills. It can also be a helpful tool when watching a younger sibling, and can be a cool thing to show off to your friends. This way of writing will also help you organize your thoughts the next time you write an essay.

In these 10 easy steps you will learn how to create a book.

You will need a pencil, ruler, notebook, printer paper, and colored pencils or markers for this how to.

Open your notebook to a clean page and create a chart. The chart should have different genres listed at the top of each section . The genres can be comedy, non-fiction, realistic fiction, fiction, fantasy, and many others. Underneath of the genres you will put three bullet points underneath each of the genres describing possible themes and plots you would want to write about. This will help you choose a genre to write about and in this how to the genre is fantasy.

In this step you will create the same chart as before but with different themes as the topic and descriptions of how the theme connects to our genre in three bullet points. Like before this will help you figure out what theme to choose and it could be don't judge a book by its cover.

As the two slides before you will create a chart to decided on what the plot, what you would want to write about, for the book. For the topic you will put a vague description of each of the plots with three bullet points underneath of it describing the plot and how it would connect with the theme chosen. After you have done this step you could have the possibility of choosing the plot of a princess and a horse.

On a new notebook page you will write out how many pages you would want in your book and a bullet point of what would be on each page underneath of the listed page. These bullet points would describe what image you would draw and the sentence you would put on each of the pages.

After planning out your plot you will create your characters. You will describe the physical appearance of each character so you would know what you will be drawling. You can also add personalities to each of your characters so you can have them develop into a different person by the end of the book. Look at your plot if you would want to do this.

Following the bullet points you created of the plot you will draw a picture on the printer paper to show what is happening on that page. You will have to leave room at the bottom or top of the page to add your sentences since this will be drawn on your final copy of the book.

After you draw the illustrations to take a little break you can decide on what your title would be. You will write down each idea of a title on a sheet of paper and get your peers opinions of each title written down. Having an outside view will help you make this decision so you would have more than one opinion on it but the most important choice is the authors since it is your book.

On another notebook page you will create ten boxes which represent the pages in the book and you can either write the page number in the box or sketch the illustration you choose for the book in the pages as well. Under each of the boxes you will write a sentence or two that will be written on the page.

After writing the outline you will go back over each of the sentences to check that it makes sense and there are no grammar mistakes. You can also have a friend or a family member check over the outline as well as a double check so you know you didn't miss anything when checking it over. As well don't forget to get their opinions of the book to help improve it before you put everything together.

Once you know what you are going to write on each page in the blank space left underneath or above of the picture drawn on the printer paper you will write the sentence you wrote on your outline on each page.

When you create a book it can be any genre, have any theme, be any plot, and have different characters. There is not an incorrect choice when choosing these things as long as you can tell a story. You just have to follow the steps given which is an organized way to create a book with whatever choice of genre, theme, plot, and characters you have chosen and you will be able to create an amazing book.

Since you have now created a book you can share it to all of your friends and show them your book. Other then that you can also use the book when babysitting or looking after a younger sibling. Your writing and illustration skills benefit greatly from this. With this new organized way to write a book which you can incorporate into even an essay you will be more prepared to write it and will make it look nicer.