Introduction to Writing a Children’s Fantasy Novel
Structuring the Story
A course by Piers Torday , Children's Author and Playwright
About the video: Structuring the Story
Overview
“The art of storytelling is the art of the right choices at the right time. What your characters choose to do, when and why will either grip your reader or leave them cold. In this lesson, we’re going to look at why storytelling is not telling your reader everything at once.”
In this video lesson Piers Torday addresses the topic: Structuring the Story, 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
“Structuring the Story In this lesson, we're going to look at how to structure your story. This is often the hardest part of writing. Don't be put off by that. It takes many writers a long time to finally work out what the structure of their story is. It involves editing, rewriting, thinking, getting up from your desk, pacing round and round, scratching your head. It will evolve over time. As we've discovered with finding ideas, planning our plot, creating a fictional world and developing our characters, there is a way through the maze. That is to start with what you know and keep it as visu...”
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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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