Tristan’s inspiration
NSW DoE 2016
Viewing guide
This resource contains six videos with author Tristan Bancks - children’s and teen author with a background in acting and filmmaking. In these videos he talks about his inspirations for writing, the process he uses to write a story and how he develops characters and the plot. He also gives advice to others wanting to write and reads a short excerpt from his book The Rules of Cool.
In this first video he explains that from a young age he has made sense of the world through writing.
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What inspired Tristan to first become a writer?
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Where do you get your writing inspiration from?
Think about what inspires people to write.
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How can writing a problem down help you solve it?
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Could a writer’s sources of inspiration change with time?
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Think of another author you are familiar with and research what inspires them to write.
Videos
Tristan’s inspiration
Writing process
Character
