The best piece of advice we've ever been given

(about writing stories)

What we’re going to share with you today is something Naomi learnt almost twenty years ago when she did a writing for children course at City Lit in London with author Sophie McKenzie.

Almost two decades have passed, Naomi’s writing has developed, she’s had seven books published and yet this is still something she comes back to time and time again whenever she starts writing something new.

It’s also something she shares with every mentee she works with because it works just as well for picture books as it does for teen fiction.

It isn’t a secret.

It isn’t complicated.

But it is incredibly effective.

The best piece of advice about writing Naomi has ever been given is…