How to Make Your Tween Book a Page Turner

There is one fundamental rule in writing a tween book, or any other book for that matter. Always make them want to turn the page. If you can accomplish this in your tween novel, then you’ll sell it to the publisher and the reader.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• paper and pencil
• computer or typewriter

1. Hook your readers and make them curious. Begin by provoking their interest. Reveal a secret, create a mystery, start a plot line. But be sure that whatever your hook it has consequences later in your story.

2. Start in the middle, never at the beginning. Your character should be in the action as the chapter opens. And end each chapter before you get to the end. Make your reader want to know what happens next.

3. Leave questions unanswered at the end of the chapter. You can answer these in the next chapter or at the end of the book.

4. Keep reminding your reader about the problem your character is facing and what the stakes are. The goal he or she is striving for should always be just out of reach.

5. What happens next should always be inevitable, but never predictable. The reader may be surprised, but not feel cheated.

Tips & Warnings

• Read some tween novels you have really liked and see how they kept you rurninf rhe pages

Resources

• Childrens Writers and Illustrators