Children’s Fiction: Write Compelling Adventure Stories
What Is a Children's Book?
A course by Ross Montgomery , Children's Author
Joined December 2020
Joined December 2020
About the video: What Is a Children's Book?
Overview
“Let me first explain what you need to consider before you start writing by talking about children’s books in general. I'll talk about my final project, currently called The Stone Callers: how the story came into being and the mistakes I made in constructing earlier versions for my publisher.”
In this video lesson Ross Montgomery addresses the topic: What Is a Children's Book?, 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
“In this lesson, I'm going to be talking about all the things you need to consider before you start writing your children's book. I'm going to be talking about my final project, which is based on a book that I'm writing currently called The Stone Corners. I'm going to be talking about how that book came into being, but I'm also going to be telling you about a lot of the mistakes that I made when I was first submitting it to my publisher. Many people forget that when writing for children, understanding your audience is one of the most key things. For a start, how old are you? What age? is the...”
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Course summary for: Children’s Fiction: Write Compelling Adventure Stories
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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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