Ele Fountain interview
Tagged adventure stories, author interviews, environment and ecology, families, fiction
An interview with Ele Fountain, author of Wild. In this interview, Ele talks with Nikki Gamble about:
00:00 Moving from editing to writing
03:44 What can an editor learn from an editor
05:49 Introducing Wild
08:14 Talking about character
5:23 Ele reads from Wild
18:00 The spark for the story
20:08 Researching the rainforest
24:40 A second reading from Wild
27:15 Including foreign language in dialogue
30:17 Plotting, planning and structure
33:54 Chapter headings
36:48 How has your writing developed since your debut book?
This post was written by Nikki Gamble
Nikki GambleFormerly a teacher (secondary and primary) and university lecturer, with over 40 years’ experience, Nikki is Director of Just Imagine. She has worked extensively in schools across the UK and internationally. She is the author of Exploring Children’s Literature now in its fourth edition (Sage, 2019) and co-author of Guiding Readers, winner of the UKLA Academic Book Award (UCL, 2016). Nikki runs workshops for teachers, librarians, students and researchers on different aspects of children's literature, an online summer school and hosts literary events. Contact nikki@justimagine.co.uk