Creative Writing Social Club

The perfect space for tweens and teens who love to write and tell stories, but need a place to share the pitfalls and triumphs of doing so!

I'm a full time author with sixteen books for young people available in over twenty languages worldwide. I've spoke in countless schools, taught many camps, seminars, clubs, and classes, and talked with hundreds (thousands?) of young authors across the world. In doing so, I've discovered that there's one particularly pervasive, troublesome lie about writing: That's it's something you go at alone, sitting at a desk, agonizing over words, suffering in solitude. This is absolutely not the case for myself or any other professional author I know! Writing, like any art form, is meant to be shared, discussed, and enjoyed, even when the process itself gets difficult. This class serves to give students a place to get feedback, bounce ideas around, get writing tips from one another and myself, and generally shed the myth of a writing life being a lonely life.

Students can drop in to this class weekly or occasionally-- whenever they need a little guidance, a place to vent, or just a place to chat with people who will totally understand the frustration of not having a clue where your character should go next. Students are encouraged to come to class with questions!