Children’s Fiction: Write Compelling Adventure Stories

Creating Your Synopsis 2

A course by Ross Montgomery , Children's Author

100% positive reviews (140)

4,390 students

Audio: English

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About the video: Creating Your Synopsis 2

Overview

“Now we are going to try to cut down our text into a one-page synopsis. We are going to focus on our key points and leave out everything that isn't essential.”

In this video lesson Ross Montgomery addresses the topic: Creating Your Synopsis 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

“Creating Your Synopsis All right, what I'm now going to try and do is whittle down what we've got here into a one page synopsis. I'll be doing this live on the screen. Let me try and get it down to its most important points. All right, there we go. I went through that, I think it's up to a three page long synopsis. I had a go reducing down everything that I thought that mattered, cutting out stuff I found extraneous, and here's what I'm left with. It fits into one page. It's about 870 words that I can see there. You can see there were a couple of points where I realised I didn't need as two...”

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

Level: Beginner
100% positive reviews (140)
4390 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.