Children’s Fiction: Write Compelling Adventure Stories
Gathering Your Ideas Together
A course by Ross Montgomery , Children's Author
Joined December 2020
Joined December 2020
About the video: Gathering Your Ideas Together
Overview
“Let me now tell you how I gather ideas for my stories and how I put them together: collating those thoughts together into one place, ready to start writing your synopsis.”
In this video lesson Ross Montgomery addresses the topic: Gathering Your Ideas Together, 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'll talk to you about how I gather ideas and collect them together in one place, ready to start writing a synopsis. Eventually. There's only so much exploring you can do. You have to start looking through those disparate threads of ideas that you have working around this story. And start gathering them together and trying to make sense trying to work out which ones belong together and which ones might belong to a different story entirely. I like to look for scenes that feel like they're part of the same story. ideas that gel nicely together. interactions between characters ...”
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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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