Introduction to Writing a Children’s Fantasy Novel
Influences
A course by Piers Torday , Children's Author and Playwright
About the video: Influences
Overview
“In this lesson I’ll show how childhood experience has been a central inspiration to some classic children’s authors I admire, and how you can learn from their lives to make writing part of yours.”
In this video lesson Piers Torday addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Writing a Children’s Fantasy Novel . Write your first children’s novel by developing a synopsis for your story and building a fictional world with compelling characters.
Partial transcription of the video
“Influences All writers are formed, to some degree, by the fire lit in our imaginations by the books we love. I believe the books we love as children can stay with us for a lifetime. In this lesson, I'm going to share some of the writers and stories that influenced me deeply as a child and still inspire some of the stories I write for children today. Every child has a writer who gets them reading. Someone who told stories in such a way that as a child, all you wanted to do was read everything they'd ever written. For me, that writer was Roald Dahl. He was a complex man and his books were of ...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Writing a Children’s Fantasy Novel
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Areas
Children's Literature, Creative Writing, Fiction Writing, Narrative, Writing
Piers Torday
A course by Piers Torday
Piers Torday is an author, playwright, and educator from Northumberland, England. As a children’s author, he is dedicated to harnessing the power of imagination through creative writing. The art of writing has always been present in Piers' life: He wrote his first cartoon at age seven, which was about a superhero called Super Sid, and won a competition in a local newspaper. His father, the late Paul Torday, is the author of Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, which was later adapted into a film.
For Piers, writing children’s novels is a way to engage young readers, inspire them to ask big questions, and shape the minds of tomorrow. His most notable work includes The Lost Magician, The Frozen Sea, The Last Wild Trilogy, and There May Be a Castle. Piers also received the Guardian Award for Children’s Fiction in 2014. In a review for the trilogy, The Times states that Piers is “the new master of books for children.”
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