Story Writing MADE EASY
by Joel McKerrow
Description
This session is all about inspiring students in their writing and giving them the tools to make it easier for them. Using his own story-framework, The Story Tree, Joel will break down story-writing into easily graspable elements that students can run with.
He will be using insights from his junior fiction/graphic book URBAN LEGEND HUNTERS as well as his story-based poetry and other fiction work he has crafted to help students write their own stories.
Students are certain to come away from this session inspired, equipped to get into their own writing and with a renewed sense of their potential to write stories.
The steps to this process can be easily transposed upon many different genres of story writing and so this workshop can work well in many different settings.
Topics covered
He will be using insights from his junior fiction/graphic book URBAN LEGEND HUNTERS as well as his story-based poetry and other fiction work he has crafted to help students write their own stories.
Students are certain to come away from this session inspired, equipped to get into their own writing and with a renewed sense of their potential to write stories.
The steps to this process can be easily transposed upon many different genres of story writing and so this workshop can work well in many different settings.
Topics covered
- What is it about story that moves us?
- What stories can you remember and why?
- The difference between PLOT and STORY.
- From Outside-In writing to Inside-Out Writing.
- The inspiration behind URBAN LEGEND HUNTERS.
- The Story-tree Framework:
- INSPIRATION
- STORY IDEA
- THEME
- PREMISE
- CHARACTER.
- PLOT
- CONFLICT
- STORY-WORLD
- STRUCTURE
Details
Audience
Upper Primary through to Senior High (Activities and outworking of content tailored specifically to the age level attending).
Duration
This session has a VERY flexible duration time. The minimum time needed is 60min, to very briefly touch on the process of STORY WRITING. Each of these topics can also be extended and broken up into multiple sessions that cover, in much greater depth, each of the STORY-WRITING STEPS. Thus it can also be run over a half-day, a full day, three days or a whole week with each day covering one of the major steps of the process.
Requirements
Data Projector, whiteboard. I will bring my own mac laptop with adapter.