Get Creative With Fantasy Writing!
This is fun low-stakes creative writing lesson that uses dice to help randomly generate story elements. Each student will create a character, create challenge or motivation for them, and then write a 100 word snippet of story.
What's included
1 live meeting
45 mins in-class hoursClass Experience
US Grade 8 - 11
Beginner - Intermediate Level
This is an introduction to creative fantasy writing. It is a workshop, so students will creating and writing during this time. We will use random idea generators to create a character, their goals, and then a complication. This workshop will have some lecture sections with slides, time for student to be creative and ask questions, allocated time to write a drabble (a short work of fiction of precisely one hundred words in length) ,and some time to share our creations. We will use dice to do random idea generation, physical dice are good but an only dice generator is perfectly fine. Every student will leave with beginnings of a fantasy story in hand!
Learning Goals
By the end of this lesson students will know the basics of a character driven story arc.Students will have created a character to live in fantasy world.
Other Details
Supply List
Notebook and pen or Computer for writing Dice, physical or digital (link supplied in lesson)
External Resources
Learners will not need to use any apps or websites beyond the standard Outschool tools.
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Live One-Time Class
$10
per classMeets once
45 min
Live video meetings
Ages: 13-18
2-12 learners per class
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