![]() This week is kind of like putting water in the moat and adding details to the castle with a butter knife. We will identify the truth or central idea of the story. We will find the hotspot-the moment near the end of the story when the tension is at its highest. Week 4: End In Week 4 we find an ending and work backward, revising with the goal of bringing forth the narrative elements that support the forward motion of the story. Now we get out the plastic buckets and molds sand structures appear. Exercises will relate to finding the character’s primary need and problem, highlighting moments of tension, and discovering moments of surprise. Week 3: Shape While continuing to expand where needed, we will look for the spine of the story. ![]() Week 2: Expand Using myth, fairy tale, epigraphs, songs, and/or works of art, this week’s exercises will help students add dimension to their blossoming stories. This week is all about getting in the sandbox and making a mess. Week 1: Freewrite We will begin with several prompts designed to produce freewriting that connects to character and explores a fictional world using the senses. Feedback and support from the instructor.Due to the amount of writing required, we strongly recommend this class for eager writers ages 11-18 only. This is the perfect class for the nascent author who longs to finish work and find an audience. Like all Brave Writer® classes, this one affirms and supports your child’s emerging writing voice. This class is also a great preparation for National Novel Writing Month in November, which students may elect to use to expand the piece they generate here. ![]() Later, you can transfer what you’ve learned to your longer-form work. If you have a long story or novel you’ve been developing, this is a great place to find its essence and travel a shorter narrative arc. You’ll take all that exploratory freewriting you’ve been doing and hone it until it reveals itself as a finished piece. Unlike our other fiction writing classes, the point of this one is to complete a story. We will begin with a triggering image and build from there, reading examples, working with myths and fairy tales, drafting and revising, finding moments of tension and intensity, discovering the story spine, exploring how to begin and how to end. Over the course of five weeks, each student will conceive and draft a short story of up to 1,200 words. If your notebooks brim with stories, if you are hard at work crafting a novel, if you yearn to push an idea through your pen onto paper until you write The End, here’s the class for you!
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