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taken a different turn.Losing sight of the storyScience fiction has so much to offer the writer in the way of technological background, exotic settings and political themes that it is all too easy to lose sight of the characters and plot.Case StudiesBob loves to shockBob is a mature English Literature student.His special interest is horror and his writing is colourful and imaginative.Unfortunately, he is inclined to let his imagination run away with him, filling his stories with so much blood and gore that the shock effect he strives for is lost.Until he can tone down the imagery by taking a more subtle approach, he will fail to achieve his full potential as a horror writer.Sue enjoys a good murderSue is a great fan of murder mysteries and her clerical job at the local police station has given her an excellent insight into police procedures.Would your story allow a reader’s imagination to play an active role?Have you charted the plot developments?Have you thoroughly researched the background to your story?If your story is based on true events, have you fictionalised the characters sufficiently?Is your storyline credible and within the bounds of probability?AssignmentA teenage girl is babysitting for a couple new to the neighbourhood.She hears a noise upstairs, investigates but can find nothing amiss, the two children aged 3 and 9 are sound asleep.Telling bedtime storiesDespite the influence of television and computers, bedtime in a comfortingly large number of families is still synonymous with storytime.Parents still enjoy reading to their children, as they were read to when they were small and will jump at the chance to dig out their old favourites and introduce them to a brand new audience.Sometimes, however, the stories need a little alteration.Perhaps the vocabulary is too difficult or the story rather frightening.We may feel a few changes are in order and before long, we are making up our own stories, replacing the leading characters with ourselves and our children.Entertaining the familyBoth child and parent gain a great deal from this exercise.Family stories usually include lots of little personal asides and ’in’ jokes.The stories often feature incidents which are amusing only because they happened to family members.Telling stories to your own children is enjoyable because they understand and relate to your sense of humour.Consequently, the very things about your stories which appeal to your own children may hold little or no interest for anyone outside your circle of family and friends.Broadening your horizonsIf you intend to write work of a publishable standard for children, you must considerably broaden your horizons.Begin by exploring your attitude to children in general.If you love them all unreservedly, believing them to be delightfully angelic creatures, children’s writing is probably not for you.Looking at Life Through a Child’s EyesIn order to write effectively for children, you need to think and react as they do.To help you look at life through the eyes of a child, consider how a tiny baby functions within its environment.We