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Dip into our collection of story starters contributed by top writers for children. Download the collection in PDF format for use int he classroom. New ideas are added each month. |
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Lucy Jago - House Hunting
Lucy Jago finds inspiration in an Elizabethan mansion and explains why houses are a good starting point for stories. | |
Liz Kessler 'Playing What if...?'
Liz Kessler, author of the Emily Windsnap and Philippa Fisher series, invi ... | |
Mary Hooper: do you have to start at the beginning?
Mary Hooper's laters novel, Newes from the Dead is based on a real life event. Mary started the story with her protaginist lying comatose in her coffin, reflecting on the event in her life that led to her hanging. In 1650, Anne Gr ... | |
Michelle Harrison: Charm Bracelet
Michelle Harrison's debut novel The 13 Treasures won the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize. While visiting her grandmother's house, an old photograph leads Tanya to an unsolved mystery. Fifty years ago a girl vanished in the woods nearby - a girl Tanya's grandmother will not speak of. Fabian, the caretaker's son, is tormented by the girl' ... | |
Simon Cheshire asks, 'What if...?'
A BIT ABOUT ME I started writing stories from about the age of ten or eleven, comic books at first, and then by the time I was in my late teens I was turning out novels, plays, scripts, you name it. And it was all garbage. Why? Because I was imitating all the books and writers I admired. I wasn't writing what suited me, and me alone. Every writer has a "voice" (terrible, a ... | |
Keep it Real by Catherine Forde
Catherine Forde was discovered on the slush pile. Before turning to writing full time, she worked as a lexicographer for Collins and taught in secondary schools. She lives in Glasgow with her husband and two sons . Catherine's latest thriller Sugarcoated will be published in April 2008. In this story starter she advises writers to use what they ... | |
Intriguing Openers by Gennifer Choldenko
Looking for a good opener? Try one of these suggestions from Gennifer Choldenko. Gennifer Choldenko was born in Santa Monica, California in 1957. She was the youngest child in a large loud family. Her nickname as a kid was “Snot-Nose”. Gennifer spent most of her time on the back of a horse, exploring the craggy hills of Southern California. After college, Gennifer got a job as ... | |
Dream On by Sophie Masson
Sophie Masson explains how a dream was an inspiration for her Thomas Trew series and invites you to 'dream on' and discover the stories lurking in your unconcious. | |
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