Ask the Author: Luke Temple
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Luke Temple
◾Don’t be afraid to try things out and write in the way that feels most comfortable to you. If you prefer writing while lying in bed, do that. If you find writing on a computer easier, type away, or if you find (as I do) that you write best while dancing to the Cheeky Girls, go ahead!
◾Even if you think what you are writing is rubbish, just keep writing. I always think my stories are rubbish when I first write them. But the more I work on them, the better they get, and I always end up loving my stories.
◾Write, write, write!!! In football, the more you practice kick ups, the better you’ll get at doing them; in dance, the more you practice a routine, the better you’ll get at performing it. It’s exactly the same with writing: in order to be a good writer you actually have to sit down and write your stories. The more you write, the easier and more fun it will get!
◾Discover as many different stories as you can. I don’t just mean by reading - watch films, go to the theatre, or even listen to your grandparents’ stories. The more stories you read, hear and watch, the easier you will find it to write your own.
◾Even if you think what you are writing is rubbish, just keep writing. I always think my stories are rubbish when I first write them. But the more I work on them, the better they get, and I always end up loving my stories.
◾Write, write, write!!! In football, the more you practice kick ups, the better you’ll get at doing them; in dance, the more you practice a routine, the better you’ll get at performing it. It’s exactly the same with writing: in order to be a good writer you actually have to sit down and write your stories. The more you write, the easier and more fun it will get!
◾Discover as many different stories as you can. I don’t just mean by reading - watch films, go to the theatre, or even listen to your grandparents’ stories. The more stories you read, hear and watch, the easier you will find it to write your own.
Luke Temple
There's nothing I love more than standing in front of a room full of 300 children!
The best part of my job is meeting children in schools, and bringing the world of writing to life with them using action-packed drama, audience participation, silly dances and laugh-out-loud fun. It's wonderful that my school visits encourage so many children to read and write.
The best part of my job is meeting children in schools, and bringing the world of writing to life with them using action-packed drama, audience participation, silly dances and laugh-out-loud fun. It's wonderful that my school visits encourage so many children to read and write.
Luke Temple
I get ideas. Lots of them. They’re buzzing round my head right now, banging into each other and forming bigger, brighter ideas. And those ideas hit more ideas and explode like fireworks in my mind. If I’m not careful, too many fireworks will go off at once and my head will explode.
That’s why I have to write - to get those ideas out of my head. The problem is, as soon as I write one idea down, another idea pops into my head. I’m in a never-ending cycle of ideas and there’s no escaping them!
That’s why I have to write - to get those ideas out of my head. The problem is, as soon as I write one idea down, another idea pops into my head. I’m in a never-ending cycle of ideas and there’s no escaping them!
Luke Temple
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