Introduction to Writing a Children’s Fantasy Novel
Where Do Ideas Come From?
A course by Piers Torday , Children's Author and Playwright
About the video: Where Do Ideas Come From?
Overview
“Now it’s time to learn how childhood experience has inspired some of the world’s greatest children’s stories, and how you can use your own memories to get started.”
In this video lesson Piers Torday addresses the topic: Where Do Ideas Come From?, 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
“Where Do Ideas Come From? In this lesson, we're going to look at how childhood experience has inspired some of the greatest children's stories ever written and how you can use your own memories to get started. It doesn't how passionate you are about wanting to write. Unless you have that magical idea for a story, it's going to be very difficult to move forward. I believe that when we write for children, one of our greatest sources for inspiration is our own childhood experience, memories, hopes, desires and fears. People often say to me, "When you write stories, are you writing for any part...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Writing a Children’s Fantasy Novel
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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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