How to Choose a Great Children’s Story Idea
With Idea Incubator, learn how to assess a winning children’s story idea — even if you’ve never been published.
If you’ve always wanted to write for children, how can you be sure whether your story idea is publishable? Or whether, once you’ve started writing, you’ll see your story through?
The Idea Incubator is created by a multi-published award-winning author and creative writing teacher with over 25 years of writing and publishing experience, and 7 years helping writers to publishing success through both courses and hands-on coaching.
Janet is the author of 13 books for young readers, from picture book through YA novels, fiction and nonfiction.
Her courses are designed for all kidlit writers, from beginners to advanced.
You don’t need a firm idea to get started - that’s what this course will help you find.
Right away, you’ll see what you may be missing —
and there are only 5 key things I’ll help you identify to start you on your path to story success.
The logline you create with my simple Logline Test method will give you a complete story roadmap.
If you’ve been trying to write a picture book or novel for children for a long time, you know how hard it is to complete a full manuscript.
And if you are just starting out, you’re probably feeling confused about how to approach good storytelling.
The trick here is to identify some very easy to overlook but important elements that every story needs, and that’s what this course is designed to teach you.
I’ve been where you are - and I use this Logline Test almost every time I begin to write something new.
This test of a story idea is simple but profound. So if you’re ready to open the door to your story idea - with every new story - this course will give you the key.
The course is designed to be completed in about 1–2 hours. You can go through the lesson and handout in one sitting and immediately apply what you learn to your own story idea.
Yes. This course focuses on one specific outcome: helping you evaluate and shape your idea using a clear 5-step framework so you can move forward with confidence.
Perfect—you’ll use your existing idea throughout the course to test, refine, and strengthen it so you know whether it’s worth pursuing.
This course is especially helpful for that. You’ll learn how to quickly assess your ideas and identify which one has the strongest potential.
No. The method works for picture books, middle grade, and young adult novels. The principles of a strong, marketable idea apply across all categories.
Both! For beginners and early-stage writers, there are clear examples and a simple step-by-step approach. And even more experienced writers can struggle with weak or unclear story concepts. This course helps you diagnose and fix that problem quickly.
It will give you a strong, practical framework to evaluate your idea against industry expectations—so you can make smarter, more informed decisions before you invest time writing.
No problem. This course comes with a refund policy—if it’s not a good fit, you can request your money back.
