Children’s Fiction: Write Compelling Adventure Stories
Planning: The End
A course by Ross Montgomery , Children's Author
Joined December 2020
About the video: Planning: The End
Overview
“In this lesson, we'll wrap up our plan: We will be taking the story we've set up to think about how to conclude it, thereby linking it to the way our story began.”
In this video lesson Ross Montgomery addresses the topic: Planning: The End, 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 End In this lesson, we'll wrap up our plan, taking the story we've created, thinking how to conclude it and finding a way to link it back to our beginning. I always feel like I can see the end to my story, but often, when it comes to it, I realise that I've forgotten key things that I wanted to write about. That's why planning things out like this is so important. That final encounter and resolution can't be a showdown between a goodie and a baddie. It also needs to wrap up lots of things that we've established so far. We need to be able to make this an important moment in ter...”
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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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