Children’s Fiction: Write Compelling Adventure Stories
What is a Quest Narrative?
A course by Ross Montgomery , Children's Author
Joined December 2020
Joined December 2020
About the video: What is a Quest Narrative?
Overview
“Let me now talk you through the standard structure of an adventure-quest narrative, using my final project The Stone Callers as an example. Your eventual synopsis will follow this structure.”
In this video lesson Ross Montgomery addresses the topic: What is a Quest Narrative?, 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
“What is a Quest Narrative? Now, I'll talk you through the structure of an adventure quest narrative using my own story, "The Stone Callers", as an example. Your eventual synopsis will follow this structure. Now is the time to start sculpting together all of your collected ideas into a plot. There's no way of getting this right the first time, so stop worrying about doing that. What matters is that we have a try doing it and see what happens. It's much easier to take something bad and make it good than to try fruitlessly to make it perfect first time. Once again, there is no one way to write...”
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Course summary for: Children’s Fiction: Write Compelling Adventure Stories
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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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