Children's Novel Writing for Beginners
Choosing Your Main Characters
A course by Lisa Thompson , Children's Author
About the video: Choosing Your Main Characters
Overview
“Now let us have a look at the question of how to build interesting characters that readers care about and want to stay with. ”
In this video lesson Lisa Thompson addresses the topic: Choosing Your Main Characters, which is part of the Domestika online course: Children's Novel Writing for Beginners. Learn to create contemporary and vibrant fiction for young readers, inspired by your memories..
Partial transcription of the video
“Choosing Your Main Characters Now, we will look at the process of creating a character for your project. I write for middle-grade readers. The average age of my readers is around ten. Children tend to like to read a character a little bit older than them. I always write my main character as around 11 or 12 years old. How do we find characters around us? There are little bits of myself in a lot of my stories, books, and there are little aspects of people around me. Always keep a lookout for different aspects of people's characters that you find interesting. I tend to fictionalise everybody. ...”
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Course summary for: Children's Novel Writing for Beginners
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Narrative, Storytelling, Writing
Lisa Thompson
A course by Lisa Thompson
Lisa Thompson is a children’s author from the UK. When she was nine years old she wrote her first book and realized that she could live out her dreams through writing. However, Lisa went on to pursue a career making radio programmes for the BBC for many years before she became a professional writer.
Inspired by creating a sense of mystery in real-world settings, she has written several books including The Light Jar, Owen and the Soldier, The Boy Who Fooled the World, and her best-selling book The Goldfish Boy. Lisa also gives talks and workshops at schools and book festivals, and has been nominated for numerous awards including the Carnegie Medal and the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize.
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