by admin | Jun 18, 2022 | Blog, Writers Group
This morning was the second regular Young Writers Group at the Sale Library. At my face to face sessions, I like to play with writing prompts that are unexpected. This morning, I collected a number of random objects and put them in my ‘Mystery Box’. Items...
by admin | Jun 9, 2022 | Blog, Writers Group
It’s freezing at the moment. Even driving to Young Writers Group in Mount Waverley today, I was blasting the heater. What better writing prompt, than to find out creative ways to stay warm. This was the first question today: List creative ways to keep warm. Here...
by admin | May 31, 2022 | Blog, Writers Group
This afternoon at Young Writers Group, we were discussing mentor texts, only that’s not we called them. If you’ve never heard of a mentor text, essentially it’s a book or piece of text that can serve as a good example of a piece of writing. I set the...
by admin | May 21, 2022 | Writers Group
It’s amazing the number of people who tell me not to do murder mysteries as an activity with young writers. The interesting thing I’ve found is that young writers love murder mysteries! The reason they love it could be creating a puzzle to solve, or...
by admin | May 17, 2022 | News, Writers Group
Yesterday, I had the first Young Writers Group at the Maffra library. There were four young writers in attendance and we had a lot of fun. As is common in these groups, talk turned to writing a novel. A few participants talked about their planning and how they have...
by admin | May 12, 2022 | News, Prompts, Writers Group
This afternoon, we had a fantastic time at Young Writers Group at Monash Library. Somehow, we started talking about hair and how it can be used to show aspects of a character in writing. We started talking about assumptions people make about the length of a...
