Creative Writing 9 Davidge

The first draft of our stories are due by Wednesday, November 6. Students who are interested in creating a cover for our book should let Mr. Davidge know by the end of this week.  By the end of next week (Oct 18) they should share 3 colour images for review - either digital (preferred) or hard copy.  These can be shared in a google folder to jcdavidge@educbe.ca. Today we gathered some initial ideas for our anthology title: Buy this Book Pen and Paper - the things we can make A Trick of the Light Evening Tales

Last class we had a lesson on the Hero's Journey as defined by Joseph Campbell. Tomorrow we are going to read a short story Harrison Bergeron  by Kurt Vonnegut.

Today we did an inspiration writing exercise to help plan our story. Students were also given their Story Plan sheet that should be shared with me by Monday, September 23. To help with our understanding, this series of fun and informative videos from Overly Sarcastic Productions was shared by one of our students.

Welcome to my blog for Creative Writing 9.  Here you can find course updates, learning resources and other items related to the glorious craft of storytelling. More details will be shared later but in general we will be focused on writing/publishing our annual short story anthology and then developing spoken word pieces.

As our course draws to a close, writers are encouraged to seek out more ways to share their stories and develop their craft. The Writer's Guild of Alberta has lots of opportunities for young writers: https://writersguild.ca/youth-blog/ The Young Alberta Book Society has a writing award and other programs: http://www.yabs.ab.ca/youngwriters.php YouthWrite has a popular summer camp and other programs: http://youthwrite.com/

Once students finish creating a video recording on their spoken word piece we are working on creating a story using any storytelling method.  Possible storytelling methods include: 1) short story 2) epic poem 3) song ballad 4) board game 5) video game plan 6) interior design 7) architecture 8) film script 9) play script To help with some of the more unorthodox approaches, we will be discussing the concept of environmental storytelling.  Here are some links about it: game-wisdom.com/critical/exploration-environmental-storytelling http://scalar.usc.edu/works/interactive-storytelling-narrative-techniques-and-methods-in-video-games/environmental-storytelling Environmental Storytelling in Video Games https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bryR9RY7KFs

Today students were given an order form for our book.  Orders are due by Wednesday, Dec 19. We continue to work on Spoken Word.  A hard copy of the spoken word piece is due by the start of Wednesday, Dec 12.