Interview with Tololwa Mollel - Part Four: 'I really enjoyed the act of writing itself'

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为年轻读者而写作：打开宝箱

800 個評分

Commonwealth Education Trust

为年轻读者而写作：打开宝箱

800 個評分

This course is for curious students and aspiring authors with a passion for writing for young readers. Participate in a dynamic online community of writers as you experiment with your own writing and develop your voice. This course will guide you with a combination of video lectures, online readings, peer reviews, and guest appearances from world-renowned children’s authors. As you work through the writing exercises, you will give and receive feedback from your peers and gain tools and techniques for improving your writing. During this course you will identify stories that matter to you, explore cultural significance and boundaries, and shape your identity as a writer; become familiar with standard elements of narrative (character, setting, plot, theme, language, dialogue, point of view); reflect on your own work and practice essential self-editing skills; see the different ways in which words and art interact, and the possibilities of longer narrative forms; come away with practical insights into publishing options; and create a plan for pursuing your enthusiasm for writing. By the end of the course, you will have ten to twelve extracts of writing that you can develop into a portfolio. Join a dynamic community of many voices from around the world. Find inspiration in your own voice, heart, and place so that you can tell the stories for young readers you’ve always wanted to tell.

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We’ve covered qualities of writing that make it appeal to an audience – its form, its genre, and its strong personal voice. Now we’ll move on to some structural elements that are key to holding your writing together. We’ll start by looking at character and setting, then move on to plot and theme. Finally, we will focus on language. Language can really bring your writing to life by adding a layer to your characters and setting and by giving your plot a good pace. This is the last module where we look at creating new writing. In the next two modules we’ll focus on editing your work and getting it published.

Interview with Tololwa Mollel - Part One 'I let an idea simmer in my head'4:52

Interview with Tololwa Mollel - Part Two: 'let the story show you the way'6:51

Interview with Tololwa Mollel - Part Three: 'I give them their right to live as characters'5:56

Interview with Tololwa Mollel - Part Four: 'I really enjoyed the act of writing itself'4:07

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Now finally can we talk a little bit about setting, the time and place of a play or

a story.

How do you make sure the details of your setting are accurate?

Do you do much research for the time and the place?

>> Yes, sometimes I have to do a lot of research.

And with some stories,

I don't, I mean setting doesn't really play all that much of a role.

And with some stories they do.

For example I was working on a play.

A fairly long play with land creatures and water creatures.

>> Right.

>> So I had consciously to go and do research about water creatures.

What creatures live in the water, rivers and what is their habitat like?

The ecology and, what are their characteristics?

I had to find all that but

I found that research can be tricky because it go on and

on and on and do research just because you don't want to work on a story.

>> Right, you've got a call coming in that's fine.

>> And you >> What did I say?

Yeah.

>> Yes, research can be tricky.

>> [CROSSTALK] Make an excuse not to do the work of the story.

So what I do- [CROSSTALK].

>> Yes I recognize that.

I love research, I could spend months doing research and never start the story.

So there comes a time when you have to end your research and

start your actual writing.

>> Yes.

>> Could I just ask about, you were saying you went and

researched about these animals.

Did you go to libraries, did you go online,

what sorts of places did you get the details.

>> The library and online.

And it's great now, you can go online and get images and sounds and whatnot.

But I use the library a lot.

So. >> Excellent, right.

I'm going to ask you one last question which I didn't tell you I was going

to ask.

What do you love most about writing, Tololwa.

If you had to sort of pick the thing about your job.

Because I know that writings partly your job as it is mine.

What do you love most about writing?

>> Wow that's a big question.

>> [LAUGH].

>> A lot of things but

I think one of the things that I like about it is that you get a second chance.

>> Great yes.

>> and a third chance and a fourth chance.

You get so many chances to make it right >> And so

you can just go over it you can enjoy reshaping the writing and

the pleasure of improving it all the way along.

>> Yeah and you can get it wrong and then finally get it right.

>> That's wonderful.

And Tololwa, very last of all, is there

one piece of advice you would most like to give to writers who are just starting off?

>> Wow. I'm trying to think back on when I started

myself, and one of the things that

I remember is that I was just writing and writing.

I mean sure I'll send my stuff to be published.

I'll get rejected.

But I'll just, you know,

it didn't really mean much to me because I really enjoyed the art of writing itself.

And then after awhile I got published, one book.

And I said well I have to bring out another book

Sir if they can't make a bid like a job.

After that.

>> [LAUGH] Yes.

>> That innocence disappeared.

Like the passion, I mean I still have the passion of I still like writing.

But I think one should not lose that innocent passion of just wanting to write.

>> That's wonderful because we began our course by saying that

the feeling that you want to write is one the most wonderful feelings there is.

>> Yes. >> Thank you so much Tololwa Mollel,

it's been a wonderful privilege to talk to you.

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