Children’s Fiction: Write Compelling Adventure Stories
Influences
A course by Ross Montgomery , Children's Author
Joined December 2020
Joined December 2020
About the video: Influences
Overview
“In this lesson, I'll talk about my writing influences―authors whose books and writing styles have inspired me, as well as filmmakers and artists who have made me want to create my own work.”
In this video lesson Ross Montgomery addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Children’s Fiction: Write Compelling Adventure Stories. Explore the process of writing a captivating quest story for children and create a one-page synopsis of your book ready to submit to a literary agent.
Partial transcription of the video
“Influences In this lesson, I'll talk about my own writing influences, authors whose books and writing styles have influenced my own. The first book I have in front of me is "The Beano". This is not a book in the traditional sense. "The Beano" is a comic from the UK that's been going for over 80 years and it's still going. It's exactly what you'd expect. It's a selection of short, silly, anarchic stories following different city characters, the main aim being to make people laugh. These were the first books that I ever really loved. Perhaps it was that they were short stories that I could ta...”
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Course summary for: Children’s Fiction: Write Compelling Adventure Stories
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Category
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Areas
Children's Literature, Fiction Writing, Narrative, Writing
Ross Montgomery
A course by Ross Montgomery
Ross Montgomery is an award-winning children’s author, who has been an avid reader and writer since childhood. He began his career as a primary school teacher and in the school holidays started writing a book for young readers. Alex, the Dog and the Unopenable Door, Ross’ professional writing debut, kick started his career as an author in 2013. The book was also shortlisted for the Costa Children’s Book Award and selected as The Sunday Times Top 100 Modern Children’s Classics.
Since then, Ross has written over 20 books for young readers, everything from picture books to short stories to novels, all of which are full of humor, magic, and adventure. His titles include Perijee and Me which won the Weald Book Award and Max and the Millions, both of which were nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Award. Ross also leads writing workshops for both children and adults.
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