AUTHOR TALK (Urban Legend Hunters)

In this session Joel will come at story-writing from the perspective of his new book URBAN LEGEND HUNTERS. How did he smoosh together poetic narration, urban legend spookiness, crazy-characters, adventurous-action, graphic novel style illustration and mass hilarity into ONE coherent story? And, more importantly, how can students begin to do the same? Joel will go through his inspiration for URBAN LEGEND HUNTERS as well as his creative process drawing students in, as he goes, with ideas to write their own fiction story.

Topics covered

• Inspiration behind URBAN LEGEND HUNTERS
• Creativity as RISK mixed with DISCIPLINE.
• Cross-Over Creativity- how mixing things up can bring about the most creative results.
• The Writing-Process for Urban Legend Hunters (The Story Tree).
• Where Inspiration comes from.
• From INSPIRATION to STORY IDEA.
• From STORY IDEA to PREMISE.
• From PREMISE to CHARACTER.
• From CHARACTER to PLOT.