Children’s Fiction: Write Compelling Adventure Stories
Planning: The Beginning 2
A course by Ross Montgomery , Children's Author
Joined December 2020
Joined December 2020
About the video: Planning: The Beginning 2
Overview
“Let's continue to work on the details of the beginning of our story before diving into the rest of the plot. These elements are essential, as they allow us to sculpt a middle that is exciting and feels natural.”
In this video lesson Ross Montgomery addresses the topic: Planning: The Beginning 2, 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 I haven't decided everything about my antagonist yet. I have yet to make lots of decisions that will only make sense once I go through this entire plot. I don't even know if he'll be called Vale. I also like the idea of calling him Mordred. That does link in nicely to those King Arthur legends that I spoke about. You can give them a holding name to start off with, you don't have to make all of these decisions now. You're still piecing every different bit together. I decided that my antagonist's power to create smoke means that he can create henchmen out of smoke who ...”
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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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