Introduction to Writing a Children’s Fantasy Novel
How to Have Ideas
A course by Piers Torday , Children's Author and Playwright
About the video: How to Have Ideas
Overview
“One of the questions I am asked most as an author is “Where do you get your ideas from?” I wish I could tell you. I don’t honestly know. But I do know how to make your mind as receptive as possible to new ideas, and that’s what we cover in this lesson.”
In this video lesson Piers Torday addresses the topic: How to Have Ideas, 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
“How to Have Ideas In this lesson, we're going to look at how ideas can be found in nearly every aspect of your daily life if you have the techniques and tools to spot them. Where do ideas come from? Where do you get your ideas from? This is one of the questions I'm asked most as an author. If I knew the answer, I wouldn't tell you because I'd be a very rich man indeed. I also wish I could give you an answer which was, "Don't you know? Go to this website, log on with your username and password and every day there's a set of new original ideas for you to download." That website doesn't exist....”
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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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