Children’s Fiction: Write Compelling Adventure Stories

Planning: The Beginning 1

A course by Ross Montgomery , Children's Author

100% positive reviews (140)

4,393 students

Audio: English

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About the video: Planning: The Beginning 1

Overview

“In this lesson, I'll talk in greater detail about how your story will begin and the main things that you should consider when setting out your synopsis.”

In this video lesson Ross Montgomery addresses the topic: Planning: The Beginning 1, 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

“Planning: The Beginning Now, we'll talk in greater detail about how your story should begin and what you'll need to keep in mind when setting out your synopsis. I've taken all of those details that we made in that previous template and I've put them onto a bigger sheet of paper to go into slightly more detail about each section of what we'll cover. I'm going to be building up my story piece by piece and making changes along the way. I'm going to be using a mixture of post-it notes and pens so I can help keep track of all my different decisions to hopefully make a little clearer why I'm maki...”

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Course summary for: Children’s Fiction: Write Compelling Adventure Stories

Level: Beginner
100% positive reviews (140)
4393 students
4 units
15 lessons (3h 13m)
7 downloads

Category
Writing
Areas
Children's Literature, Fiction Writing, Narrative, Writing

Ross Montgomery

A course by Ross Montgomery

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Children's Author

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.