07 December 2020
Posted by Tabby Hayward
TRAINS
14 attending
This week, we began by working on the collaborative group poems, looking over what we have so far, making any amendments, and coming up with a title (thanks Charlotte!)
Next, following on from last week's train poem challenge, we were working on stories set on a train! To get inspired, we looked at extracts from three great stories set on trains - Murder on the Orient Express, by Agatha Christie, The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg, and The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aitken (kindly read for us by Hiba!)
Inspired by any or all of these stories, writing in any genre (thriller, mystery, romance, historical, fantasy, sci-fi, comedy, etc), the young writers were challenged to write a story set on a train.
The train can be going anywhere in this (or any!) world!
It can be set in the present, past or future.
Think about:
• Where’s the train going?
• What does it look like – inside and out?
• Who’s on board?
• Why are they going on this journey?
• What mysterious or exciting thing could happen while they’re on the train? Perhaps the train gets snowed in/stuck somewhere, as it does in ‘Murder on the Orient Express’. Perhaps something comes flying in through the window, like the wolf in ‘The Wolves of Willoughby Chase’. Or perhaps it’s all about the beauty and excitement of the journey and the destination, like in ‘Polar Express’.
• Try to use as much descriptive detail as possible to bring the setting of the train journey, and the landscape they pass through (or stop in) to life
Archive
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House Warming Party (The Mortifying Ordeal of Being Known) - MAST Collective Blog #2
Intern Blog 5 - The Publishing Process
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on workshop and transformations: frogs, lions, and the duck that becomes a larder...
Poetry Ambassadors - Interview with April Egan
Intern Blog 1 - Finding a Voice
World Poetry Day: Fluffypunk and the Invisible Women
On Being a Writer: A Conversation by Beth Phillips & Sam Morton
Poetry Ambassadors - Interview with Kaycee Hill
UNHEARD VOICES: INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY, AND STORIES OF CONFLICT
