Introduction to Writing a Children’s Fantasy Novel
Creating Your Characters
A course by Piers Torday , Children's Author and Playwright
About the video: Creating Your Characters
Overview
“Characters bring life to a story. Whether human or animal or fantasy being, once a reader cares about your fictional creation, they are invested in their fate, and will keep reading to find out what happens next. In this lesson, find out how to create characters that convince.”
In this video lesson Piers Torday addresses the topic: Creating Your Characters, 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
“Creating Your Characters If you're lucky when you're writing, a character will appear in your head as fully formed as the day they were born. How they look, how they speak, even how they dress. But most of the time, they won't. In this lesson, we'll look at how you can get to know your characters as closely and dearly as a friend or family member. When you create a character on the page, you are creating a whole new person. You are trying to create someone who feels real and authentic enough that your reader will care about them as much as they do someone they know in real life. Like gettin...”
This transcript is automatically generated, so it may contain mistakes.
Course summary for: Introduction to Writing a Children’s Fantasy Novel
-
Category
Writing -
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.”
- 100% positive reviews (197)
- 7,333 students
- 17 lessons (4h 6m)
- 17 additional resources (3 files)
- Online and at your own pace
- Available on the app
- Audio: English
- English · Spanish · Portuguese · German · French · Italian · Polish · Dutch
- Level: Beginner
- Unlimited access forever
