Children’s Fiction: Write Compelling Adventure Stories
Planning: The Middle 2
A course by Ross Montgomery , Children's Author
Joined December 2020
Joined December 2020
About the video: Planning: The Middle 2
Overview
“Let's decide on what remains inconcrete in the middle part of our plot. It's all about getting some key things in the right place and then down onto paper before planning out the climax and resolution of our story.”
In this video lesson Ross Montgomery addresses the topic: Planning: The Middle 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 Middle I decided for my final part that Evie will go to the London Wall, a collection of ancient stones that are there in the city, to see if they can find out a little bit more about this stone. By doing that, they find out even more about the backstory of how the stone was created and what it can do. Your middle section is not just plot and building amounts of danger, it's also a chance for you to track your protagonist's own internal journey. Your protagonist should be changing as this story goes on, they should be a different person by the time that climax comes, so that t...”
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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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