Creative Writing: Supportive Individual Tutoring and Imagination Jumpstart

This is a private, individual tutoring opportunity for learners who are self-motivated and excited to start a creative writing project or continue work on a story, book, script or graphic novel.  Each session is custom-designed to fit the needs and interests of the learner.  We can work on story ideas, point of view, continuity, building surprises into your story or a variety of other topics.  We will use an "I notice, I wonder" feedback structure.  If learners are interested, we can bring kinesthetic techniques and acting/improv into our sessions. I am happy to help with a few questions about grammar and style as they come up, but our emphasis in these sessions is the creative process of writing rather than technical aspects of writing sentences and paragraphs.  Our sessions will be joyful, supportive and designed to stimulate the imagination and facilitate or jumpstart the creative writing process.

Here's how it works:  
1. Sign up for a date and time that works well for your learner.  If you don't see a time that works for you, please feel free to message me through Outschool and I will see if I can fit your preferred time into my teaching schedule.  In 2024 I teach will teach primarily on Tuesday and Thursdays.  I do not teach on weekend days.
2. Once you have signed up for one or more sessions, please message me or answer my post on the classroom page to provide some information your learner's current creative writing project.   I will use this information to plan our time together.  Feel free to include a link or file with a sample of your learner's writing if you want me to read it in advance (no more than 5 pages please), or your learner is welcome to share their work with me as part of our time together.  
3.  I encourage learners to work on and share their writing with me between sessions.  I am happy to provide feedback via messages in the classroom.

Keeping in mind that each session will be custom-designed for your learner, here is a sample breakdown of activities:

-Brief activity to get our imaginations and creative juices flowing, and to get to know each other if this is our first session. 
-Discussion of the learner's writing project and any creative roadblocks they are experiencing.
-Writing activities to address the issues and needs we identify during our discussion and/or feedback on writing shared before or during the session.
-Reflection, affirmation and identification of short and long term writing goals.

Thanks very much, and I look forward to working with your learner.  Best --Meredith