Children's Novel Writing for Beginners
Researching to Connect with Your Audience
A course by Lisa Thompson , Children's Author
About the video: Researching to Connect with Your Audience
Overview
“Now we will take a look at connecting with our audience of younger readers. There are many things that you can do to achieve this, but one of the most important things for me is to read what is already out there.”
In this video lesson Lisa Thompson addresses the topic: Researching to Connect with Your Audience, 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
“Researching to Connect with Your Audience In this lesson, I'll talk to you about how to connect with your audience. I've mentioned previously, that I write for middle-grade readers and the average age of my readers is around ten. I need to write for today's ten-year-olds, not the ten-year-old that I used to be. How do we connect with today's audience? You can do many things but the most important one is to read the books that are out at the moment. This is a golden age for children's writing and there's so much variety of books. Read the market, read what you're hoping your readers will be ...”
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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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