Rick Riordan experienced childhood in Texas and went to secondary school there too.As a child Rick got a kick out of the chance to peruse dream books and mythology. One of his most loved books was the Lord Of The Rings. He likewise got a kick out of the chance to compose at a youthful age and even attempted to get his first story distributed at 13 years old. He wasn't effective the first run through, however he continued attempting and all his diligent work would pay off numerous years after the fact.In secondary …show more content…
Riordan was once asked by his young son, Haley, to narrate to him bedtime stories about gods and the heroes in the Greek mythology. At first he had stories to tell his son, but with time he ran out of stories. His son was very disappointed and even asked him if he could come up with something new, but with similar characters to his previous stories.Motivated by his son’s request, Rick Riordan managed to come up with the main character he named Percy Jackson. He told Haley about Percy’s long quest to recover Zeus’s lightning bolt in modern-day America. This story took three nights to tell and by the time Rick was done, his son suggested he should write a children’s book.As an instructor, he got motivation for names incorporated into his top of the line Percy Jackson and the Olympians arrangement, as "Jackson" (Percy's last name), Nancy Bobofit and even Luke