28 September 2024
Posted by Frankie
For our third week of Forest Arts Writers, Antosh and I started off our junior session with a
warm-up. We all drew an animal and a meal we imagined this animal would bring to a
birthday party.
Antosh drew Borris, the alligator, who had whipped up some spaghetti bolognese to bring to
the buffet. Elsie drew Donkey Kong, who brought a runaway banana. Indie had Le Bob the
dragon, who brought some delicious dead rats. Tabatha had a whole gang of animals, but
Misty, the ghost lion, represented her herd at the party and brought some ghost curry. Evan’s
snake JiiiimBobbbbb brought an assortment of king pineapple, meatballs and a banana.
Noah’s character was called Big Mama Bob, a mythical demon creature who brought a fire
apple. Henry’s Human/Chicken/Turtle called SnottyMan rather appropriately brought a plate
of snot. Hamish had a crocodile viper hybrid who brought a zombie to eat. Juno created
Midnight, the kitty dragon who, despite her small size, brought an entire live cow. Finally,
Henry chose the mythical El Chupa Cabra (a diseased dog) and brought a bag of raw goat-
yum.
Next, we all spent time imagining what would happen if the animals we had created were all
at the same party: Would there be any problems? Who would they meet? What could
happen? The idea was to explore conflict between characters, and conflict is what we got!
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Getting off to a similar start for the Young Writers group, we described our week as an
animal and had some very colourful descriptions: Poppy chose a sloth to represent a slow
and tiring week. Ava, however, chose a kangaroo as her week had been chaotic. Chloe
described a pigeon standing around doing nothing, as that’s what she felt her week had
entailed. Catherine’s week was summarised as a hippo in a zoo with a child who tried to pet
the hippo and had their head bitten off- She was the child. Daisy also had a slow week and
chose a snail. Berry chose a pig to represent her week- a pig about to get slaughtered.
After a colourful and entertaining start, we revisited our game of consequential poems from
the previous week, but this time, we all started with the same line. Nearly all of our poems
took a very dark and amusing turn, and some even sounded quite well put together.
For our main activity, we looked at several types of literary conflict:
Character vs Self
Character vs Character
Character vs Nature
Character vs Supernatural
Character vs Technology
Character vs Society
The task was to create a character, or multiple, and place them in one of these types of
conflicts. A few prompts from Antosh included: ‘What world do they live in?’ and ‘What is
your characters desire/goal?’. As the group started planning and writing their stories, we also
discussed ‘catharsis’, the use of writing to figure out and release feelings, as a few people in
the group realised their writing often reflected their realities. For example, Poppy found
herself writing about school, and Daisy wrote about a future encounter with a rather
annoying person.
more next week :)
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