Children’s Fiction: Write Compelling Adventure Stories
Warm-up Exercises to Start Writing
A course by Ross Montgomery , Children's Author
Joined December 2020
Joined December 2020
About the video: Warm-up Exercises to Start Writing
Overview
“In this lesson, I'll talk about how I gather material, ideas, and inspiration for my stories. I will also suggest some approaches you could use for your own writing.”
In this video lesson Ross Montgomery addresses the topic: Warm-up Exercises to Start Writing, 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
“Warm-up Exercises to Start Writing In this lesson, I'll talk about how I gather material, ideas and inspiration for my stories. I'll also suggest some approaches you could use for your own writing. There is no one way to write a story. Every single author that I know or have heard of has different disciplines. They write at different hours, have different approaches to getting their own story down. There is no one way to do it. What matters is that you spend some time trying to work out your own schedule and what works best for your writing. That in itself can take time. Every creative pers...”
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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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