Breaking down stereotypes in fiction

Breaking down stereotypes in fiction

One of the things I love about the young writers’ groups is that it often doesn’t matter what I’ve planned to do, things change to whatever the group is interested in at the time. This morning, I was at the Young Writers’ Group in Sale. As...
Rexy’s Accident

Rexy’s Accident

Today, I set the kids an emoji prompt. They were to come up with a story using the following emojis as inspiration: There is a t-rex, a bumped head, a handbag, a letterbox, an avocado, someone climbing up a cliff, and a baby change sign. It’s been a little while...
One Prompt, Multiple Stories Part 2

One Prompt, Multiple Stories Part 2

Last month, I posted about our One Prompt, Multiple Stories challenge in Virtual Writers Group. Yesterday, we had the last session in this series, and everyone had a lot of fun. The prompt we used was: Imagine you have picked up a stick, only to find it’s magic....
One Prompt, Multiple Stories

One Prompt, Multiple Stories

We had a lot of fun in Virtual Writers Group last week, and came up with a fun challenge for participants. Starting this week, we are going to start a series of sessions where we look at using one prompt to write multiple stories. Why are we doing this? We wanted to...
Creating Dragons in Sale

Creating Dragons in Sale

One of the things I love about dragons is the variety. They come in so many shapes and sizes and abilities. Creating dragons is a lot of fun, and my How to Create a Dragon workshop is one of my favourites. This morning I had Young Writers Group at the Sale library and...
Baby Name Lists

Baby Name Lists

This afternoon, I ran a workshop at Monash Library in Mount Waverley. We were having fun with the murder mystery writing prompt when one of the participants asked for suggestions for a name. She had an idea of the character, and wanted a name that would have been from...