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Lesson Zero · WriteAcademy

A 20-minute lesson that ends with your story plan in your hand.

Free to plan. Walk through the four foundations of a children’s story — hero, world, change, and the reader you’re writing for — and walk out with a one-page Story Plan you can keep, share, and write from.

Start the lessonFree to plan · $29 to have us draft and illustrate
An adult and a child reading a picture book together

Three steps. One Story Plan.

1

Take the lesson

Five short steps walk you through the foundations of writing for children — hero, world, change, and the reader you have in mind.

2

Get your Story Plan

A one-page artefact with your four answers and an AI-drafted synopsis. Download it free, print it, or stick it on the fridge.

3

Write it yourself, or have us draft it

Take it from here on your own with the plan as your guide — or hand the plan to us and we’ll draft and illustrate the whole 12-page book.

From the team behind WriteAcademy

Storybook Creator is built by WriteAcademy, where over 160,000 writers have learned to write for children. The lesson here is Module 1, lived in.

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Simple pricing

Free to plan. $29 to have us draft and illustrate.

Lesson + Story Plan

Free

  • ✓ 20-minute guided lesson
  • ✓ One-page Story Plan PDF
  • ✓ AI-drafted synopsis you can edit

Drafted & illustrated book

$29

  • ✓ 12 illustrated pages from your plan
  • ✓ Print-ready PDF you can edit before you buy
  • ✓ Pay only when you download