Stuart Gibbs talks about inspiration, research, reading, and how to build a believable story with outlines, methods, and details.
For further instruction, try the Starting Stories extension with brainstorming activations and a story staring chart to keep students focused on specific areas within the story.
For further instruction on any of the video topics, you can download and distribute the writing extensions. Each episode topic has an accompany writer extension that can be used in conjunction with the video or separately.
Stuart Gibbs is the New York Times bestselling author of the Charlie Thorne series, FunJungle series, Moon Base Alpha series, Once Upon a Tim series, and Spy School series. He has written screenplays, worked on a whole bunch of animated films, developed TV shows, been a newspaper columnist, and researched capybaras (the world's largest rodents). Stuart lives with his family in Los Angeles.
Can an undercover nerd become a superstar agent? In the first book in the New York Times bestselling Spy School series, Ben Ripley sure hopes so—and his life may depend on it!
Charlie Thorne is a genius. Charlie Thorne is a thief. Charlie Thorne isn't old enough to drive. And now it's up to her to save the world…
Join middle school sleuth, Teddy Fitzroy, as he solves mysteries at FunJungle, the nation's largest zoo in this hilarious, New York Times bestselling series.
It's a murder mystery on the moon in this humorous and suspenseful space adventure! Twelve-year-old Dashiell Gibson solves murders, finds missing people, and searches for a rogue poisoner in this far-out adventure series.
A hilarious, highly illustrated middle grade series about a peasant boy named Tim who dreams of becoming a knight. He doesn't know how to ride a horse or wield anything more deadly than a water bucket, but he's going to do whatever it takes to make sure his dream becomes a reality.
