Monday, October 29, 2018

Halloween Fun


Create a dialogue between one of these pairs:

Two pieces of candy corn

The color orange and the color black

Two people at a costume party: identify what they are wearing

A masked trick-or-treater with a masked intruder

Two three-year-old princesses

Two teens about to throws eggs at a house

An old woman and the little pirate at her door


Welcome to Creative Writing!

"Before you begin to write a sentence, imagine the scene you want to paint with your words. Imagine that you are the character and feel what the character feels. Smell what the character smells, and hear with that character’s ears. For an instant, before you begin to write, see and feel what you want the reader to see and feel."

--Othello Bach

In this course, we'll focus on those elements that make for vivid, effective writing.

We'll tap into your creative brain, and you'll make a blog portfolio of all your creative work. Our goal is to make you realize that every person has a story to tell, and every writer can find a way to polish that story to perfection.

In this crisp and lovely October, you'll start on your journey to better writing--and I predict you'll fall in love!

(Pictured: my sons in the woods).

A Screenplay Exercise

To get us started today, let's take something that we already know and put it in a new context to create something fun and vibrant on th...