Creative Writing Club
In this ongoing Creative Writing Club, we will use a wide variety of prompts to generate new work, building our skills of free-writing, revision, editing, adding sensory details, building characters that linger, and settings to remember.
What's included
4 live meetings
3 in-class hoursMastery Evaluation
1 hour per week. You will get personal feedback on any one piece you bring to the next class, including suggestions, edits, and development ideas.Assessment
includedClass Experience
We will learn how to generate new writing. We will cover how to find ideas and trust them and discover 'free-writing'. We will learn how to trust ourselves to express what we want and how we want. Week of Feb 4th: Topic/Theme 1: Plot/Story and what happens ⇢ Week of Feb 11th: Topic/Theme 2: Characters and Narrators ⇢ Week of Feb 18th: Topic/Theme 3: Setting and context ⇢ Week of Feb 25th: Topic/Theme 4: Style and how we want to add more details to our stories Each meeting will start with a short conversation about what we are each writing in our own time, a short story, a poem, homework etc. Then I will offer a variety of prompts, visual, audio and text based. I encourage you to write the first draft without editing, then share the short piece with each other and we will then give feedback on what we loved, where we got lost in the story, and what we want more of. Together we will create a living document of prompts to take home and use as you wish.
Learning Goals
Free-writingSelf-editing/revision tools
Other Details
Pre-Requisites
Something to write with! You will be reading your new work out loud at times. Also, after you have had one class with me, bring in prompt ideas to add to our Story Bank.
Supply List
Something to write on during class.
External Resources
Learners will not need to use any apps or websites beyond the standard Outschool tools.
Joined April, 2024
Teacher expertise and credentials
Sarah Leamy is the author of Stay, G’Dog, Hidden, When No One’s Looking, Lucky Shot, and Lucky Find, as well as her award winning travelogue, Van Life. Her shorter work has been published in Los Angeles Review, Hunger Mountain, Santa Fe Writers Project, and others. Her awards include winning the NM/AZ Book Awards for her fiction, Honorable Mention for the Quill Prize (Red Hen Press) and more recently long-listed with the Santa Fe Writers Project.
Sarah Leamy focuses on encouraging others to explore more. How? By publishing Wanderlust Journal, an online hub for personal travel stories, the podcast of the same name, and managing Wild Dog Press which publishes a select few travel memoirs. Sarah also presents at Overland Expo and other such travel expos on such topics as being a solo explorer, taking pets along, the Southwest Backroads, and the business of writing and publishing.
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Live Group Class
$4
weekly or $15 for 4 classes1x per week, 4 weeks
45 min
Live video meetings
Ages: 10-14
2-6 learners per class
