Each lesson involves planning and writing a short story using various different structures, combined with dramatic images that stimulate ideas. Students then submit their writing for detailed feedback and amendments.

Creativity is unleashed when we learn methods that we can then adapt. I have found this to be true whenever I have taught structures to students over the years. Students who are stuck and don’t know how to begin, how to continue, or how to end, are liberated by having a structure within which they can work. Once you have learned it well, you can adapt it any way you like. This is how all of the great authors learned to write - start with a structure that has been used before, then adapt to suit your own ideas.