Write Together! Creating Magical Worlds (8-10)

One of the best ways to become a better writer is to write. Writing together is a fun experience and a chance for us to be inspired and to learn from our peers.

As a class, we will create a fantastic world--time travel, magic, alternate dimension, other planet, fairy world, etc. We'll develop a magic system for that world, which could be magic, time travel, space travel, super powers, etc. Usually, some type of conflict will arise as we develop our world and will give us ideas for the story. Then, we'll come up with a character and some of the obstacles for our story. On the last day, we will either make an outline for the story or we will write the story together.

During each class, I will take notes on the class story and will post the notes in the Outschool classroom so students can think about the story in between classes. I will guide the students, asking questions and prompting them to think about different aspects of stories. However, the story will belong to them, with their ideas and words.

While this class is primarily a creative collaboration, we will address story writing topics as they arise, and I will answer students’ questions.

Each story is unique, so the order in which we write the story may change based on story and class needs, but we will cover the following in this general format:

Class 1: Create a fantasy or science fiction world for our story and the magic, superpower, or technology for our world
Class 2: Create a character for our story
Class 3: Create obstacles for our character
Class 4: Outline or write our story together