Frederike Schmitz
Writing is creative, publishing a business: query letters, literacy agents and next steps
Now that I feel like my story is mature enough, I struggle with the next steps. Should I approach a traditional publisher? And if so,...
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het Fabel Atelier
- Sep 2, 2021
- 5 min
Illustrating 2: Putting visual ideas on paper
Today the first presentable version of Didi, the white blood cell is revealed in this Blog post. But first: If you’re curious about the...
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Frederike Schmitz
- Aug 19, 2021
- 6 min
How to publish a children’s science book?
Now that I send off my story to a few kids to read it and hopefully give me feedback about it, it is time for me to ‘move on’ so to...
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Frederike Schmitz
- Aug 12, 2021
- 7 min
What do kids want to know about the corona virus and what can I learn from that?
I’m writing a story about Didi, a brave immune cell and I want this story to be attractive to kids aged 7-10 or older. But I don’t know...
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Frederike Schmitz
- Aug 5, 2021
- 4 min
COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy: more positive messages please!
In my last blog I promised you an analysis of the Q&A landscape on COVID-19 questions from children. Before I get to that I wanted to...
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Frederike Schmitz
- Jul 29, 2021
- 8 min
What do children (want to) know about the immune system?
I wrote a 5000-word long story about Didi, an immune cell (to be precise a dendritic cell) in the lungs. I’ve written, edited and...
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het Fabel Atelier
- Jul 8, 2021
- 6 min
Illustrating 1: Visualising a world we can’t see.
Good day! I am the illustrator of Frederike’s book in progress: “Where the Brave Cells are” and guest writer on her blog. I have had the...
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Frederike Schmitz
- Jul 1, 2021
- 6 min
Beyond words: when a story really needs illustrations
Early on when writing about Didi, the immune cell I realized that I visualized lots of things I wrote about in my head but had no idea if...
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Frederike Schmitz
- Jun 24, 2021
- 6 min
A COVID-19 vaccine while pregnant?
Today I want to devote a blog to vaccinations and pregnancy. Why? Because I finally got my first SARS-CoV-2 vaccine! Yay! And I’m...
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Frederike Schmitz
- Jun 17, 2021
- 6 min
How to write a catchy logline for your story
By chance I was browsing through social media and eventually jumped from website to website when I found the Society of Children's Book...
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Frederike Schmitz
- Jun 10, 2021
- 6 min
The writing process: feedback, feedback, feedback and how to find good metaphors
I deliberately chose to not use any scientific vocabulary in the story. Because I wanted to keep the story itself free of jargon, I had...
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Frederike Schmitz
- Jun 3, 2021
- 3 min
How to keep yourself motivated and writing during lock-downs
In my last blog I told you how the pandemic changed my story. In that sense it was a chance. A chance to get to a better, shorter story....
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Frederike Schmitz
- May 27, 2021
- 3 min
And then corona started and Didi moved to the lung
In April 2020 the corona crisis hit us. All of us, all over the world. A pandemic. During my studies, I’ve learned about the history of...
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Frederike Schmitz
- May 20, 2021
- 5 min
Meet Didi and her family
When I started writing the story, I needed a protagonist and a couple of cells which would get a part of the story. Here again I let...
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Frederike Schmitz
- May 13, 2021
- 4 min
Struggling with the science: science evolves
As I discussed in the previous blog, I had chosen several scientific facts for my science story. But what is a scientific fact? And does...
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Frederike Schmitz
- May 6, 2021
- 6 min
How to turn science facts into a story embedded into science? A ‘technical’ approach.
In today’s blog post I want to come back to the immune story I’m writing. So far all I’ve written was pages full of non-fiction science...
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Frederike Schmitz
- Apr 29, 2021
- 4 min
Boosting your immune system- how can you do that?
Happy #InternationalImmunologyDay! To celebrate this day, I wanted to write about an important immune concept- boosting your immune...
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Frederike Schmitz
- Apr 22, 2021
- 2 min
Changing your perspective: how can you think and feel something about science?
By now I had written several pages about what happens when the first microorganisms settle onto your skin, in your guts, lungs and any...
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Frederike Schmitz
- Apr 15, 2021
- 3 min
How does one even write a story based on science facts?
So, picture me, reading up on science literature for weeks and weeks. And then I finally start writing. What did I write? I accidentally...
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Frederike Schmitz
- Apr 8, 2021
- 4 min
The reason to finally start writing about science
So here I am, struggling with this vague idea of writing about immune cells for children. But I have no idea on how to start. No idea who...
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