09 March 2024
Posted by Sukie & Claire
Young Writers – Week 9 (The Art of Writing) – Choose Your Own Adventure
Hi Writers!
In this week’s workshop we explored choose your own adventure stories, and had a go at writing our own.
In our check-in, we described our week as a type of Hat:
Berry said her week had been a plain hat with weird things on it - an odd one
Poppy M described her week as a wide brim hat or clown hat - she’s been hiding
Poppy C’s week had been like a glamorous wedding hat - quite nice
In our reading check-in we had a lot of variety again:
Poppy C: 2nd Sherlock Holmes book
Berry: First Class Murder - murder most ladylike
Poppy M: Far from the madding crowd - Thomas Hardy
We read the synopsis of several Choose Your Own Adventure books: Space and Beyond, Journey Under the Sea, and House of Danger.
Then discussed some main features of these types of story:
Written in 2nd person
Main character on a quest - what's the goal or mission?
Choose a genre - action & adventure, fantasy, mystery?
Dangerous locations
Dilemas & choices to face. Presenting options
Create dead ends in the story - restart
Then it was time to have a go at writing our own. We drew maps of our locations:
Poppy C: an abandoned hospital (haunted)
Berry: an abandoned child thrown in the sea, or, falling off a ship & the mermaids rescue you
Poppy M: a village. Who dunnit. Who’s the thief?
We had a go at using the story dice to add twists and turns to our stories. Presenting high stakes options - to create drama in our adventures. Excellent adventures all round!
We’re looking forward to seeing everyone next week - our final session of the Spring Term!
Summer Term begins on 20th April 2024
Sign up for free at https://www.forest-arts.co.uk/event/young-writers-group-summer-24
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