You would think creating a children’s book would be easy because the books are short, right? But honestly, writing the story is usually the easy part. It’s everything that comes AFTER the story that starts getting complicated. 😅 📖 𝟭. 𝗦𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗗𝗦 A spread is when an illustration spans across two facing pages of your book. They can look amazing, but formatting them correctly for print can be a challenge. You have to think about bleed, margins, the gutter, where your characters are positioned, and whether something important is going to disappear into the center of the book. Unless you’re using a program like InDesign or Affinity that can properly handle those layouts, this can become frustrating pretty quickly. 🤯 🎨 𝟮. 𝗜𝗟𝗟𝗨𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦 You can hire a professional illustrator, but depending on the book, that can easily cost thousands of dollars. 💸 AI has made illustration much more accessible, but it comes with its own problem: 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆. Your character looks perfect on page one, and then five pages later their face changes, their clothes are different, or suddenly they look like an entirely different kid. 😂 🔤 𝟯. 𝗧𝗘𝗫𝗧 𝗚𝗘𝗧𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗟𝗢𝗦𝗧 Another HUGE issue I see is text getting lost in the illustrations. 👀 I’ve seen so many DIY children’s books where the artwork is beautiful, but the text is sitting on top of a busy part of the image and becomes difficult to read. Or someone generates the text directly into the AI image, which creates another problem because now you can’t easily edit it when AI misspells something or creates those weird AI letters. 😵‍💫 Your text should remain editable and work 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 the illustration — not be permanently baked into it. 📱 𝟰. 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗧𝗢 𝗘𝗣𝗨𝗕 And then there’s the ebook. 😬 Sure, you can create a children’s book in Canva and get a PDF that works for print. But what happens when you want to publish the Kindle version? Children’s picture books often need a 𝗳𝗶𝘅𝗲𝗱-𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗘𝗣𝗨𝗕 so the illustrations and text stay exactly where they’re supposed to be. Suddenly, you’ve added another technical formatting project to your plate.

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We just entered 𝗪𝗲𝗲𝗸 𝟰 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟭𝟬𝟬 𝗣𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗲 — and now it’s time to start thinking beyond just creating Pins. If you really want to accelerate your Pinterest growth, 𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝗮𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿. The more signals Pinterest gets that people are interested in your content, the more opportunities your Pins may have to reach new people. Today’s challenge: Create your Pins, but also spend a little time getting people to interact with your Pinterest account. Try this: 👉Ask people in your network to 𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗼𝗻 𝗣𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁. 👉Share one of your favorite Pins with friends, readers, or your community. 👉Ask someone who genuinely finds the Pin useful to 𝘀𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗶𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗲𝘃𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗯𝗼𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀. 👉Engage with other creators and support their content too. Make sure your Pins are actually worth saving — think checklists, tips, ideas, resources, and helpful information people may want to come back to later. 💡 𝗣𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗧𝗶𝗽: Start asking yourself, “𝘞𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳?” That simple question can completely change the type of content you create. A pretty Pin might get noticed. A 𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗳𝘂𝗹 𝗣𝗶𝗻 is much more likely to get saved. 👇 𝗗𝗔𝗬 𝟮𝟭 𝗖𝗛𝗘𝗖𝗞-𝗜𝗡: Drop your Pins in the comments so we can engage!

Be honest do you plan your whole story first, or just start writing and see where it goes?

Share whatever you’re working on or proud of right now. This community is full of creators, authors, and entrepreneurs, and sometimes the best thing we can do is help each other get a little more visibility. 💡 IDEAS ON WHAT YOU COULD SHARE: • Yourself and what you do • Your Skool community • A book you're writing or recently published • A project you're building • A shoutout to another member • A video, post, or resource • Affiliate links (yes, those are allowed) The goal is simple: help our members get seen. Just one request so this stays valuable for everyone. 👉 1 RULE: If you share something, please also leave a thoughtful or helpful comment on someone else’s post. Support goes both ways, and when we all participate, the whole community benefits. Now let’s see what everyone is building 👇