Online Writing Workshop for Kids and Teens

INSTRUCTOR: Bobbi Carducci

Open to beginning writers of all ages

To enroll click here: http://www.youngvoicesfoundation.org/onlinewritingworkshop.html

DATE: February 4 - March 25, 2013
LIMITED CLASS SIZE: Enroll Now Fee: $45.00 per student payable via Paypal or check. (Fee must be received prior to the start of the workshop)

How Does it Work? Students will log on to a specified Yahoo group to attend classes. Workshop materials are posted by the instructor once a week. Students post their responses on the workshop site or send them directly to the instructor at any time during the day or night via an email address that will be provided on the first day of the workshop. Parents will have access to workshop materials at all times and may assist their child to access the lessons.

Instructor: Bobbi Carducci - Published Author, Writing Instructor, Young Voices Foundation Director. More information about Bobbi and her writing can be found at www.communityvoicemedia.com

To enroll click here: http://www.youngvoicesfoundation.org/onlinewritingworkshop.html

Course Schedule:

Session 1 - February 4, 2013
I want to write but how do I get started. (Where do you get your ideas?)

Session 2 - February 11, 2013

I have an idea. What's next? (Figuring out what happens when and who does it.)

Session 3 - February 18, 2013

Where are we? (Using time and location to set the mood.)

Session 4 - February 25, 2013

How many characters do I need and who are they?

Session 5 - March 4, 2013

Let's talk about it. (Who says what and how and why they say it is important.)

Session 6 - March 11, 2013

Help! I'm stuck. What to do when your story stalls.

Session 7 - March 18, 2013

Is it over yet? (How to write a good ending.)

Session 8 - March 25, 2013

Know your craft. (The importance of grammar, spelling, punctuation.)

This workshop is intended for beginning writers actively seeking to improve their craft. Participants will be encouraged to share portions of their work in progress with the instructor and the group on the message board.  To enroll click here http://www.youngvoicesfoundation.org/onlinewritingworkshop.html

Comments and suggestions will be monitored by the instructor before being posted to ensure they are polite and constructive in nature.

Welcome Guest Author - Clara Bowman-Jahn

Clara Bowman-Jahn

 

Hi Storee,

So glad I could stop in and visit with you. You are an inspiration to me. I love your book and writing prompts. I understand that you would like a story about how I started writing. I have written since the eighth grade. My mother copied quotes from books she read and I started doing that, too, when I started reading books that impressed me.

Once upon a time in school I read books that impressed me and I started copying quotes from them about what I thought was earth shattering. Insights the characters had that were insights to me. Then one day I started writing my own feelings. I had been angry with my older brother and had no one to talk to about it. I started journaling about that and have never stopped. My journals are in a room I call my office. They are spiral notebooks full of emotion and ideas. They fill one and half filing cabinets. I have them organized according to year.  

The time I started writing was when I changed from just journaling to a character named Annie in a children’s book about four years ago. I was sick and wanted to record the birds outside my window. It was just coincidence that made me write it into a character instead of just journaling. During the time I was recording the “times or o’clocks" that the bird came out, I realized I wanted this to be a children’s book and after I had written it I began asking my kindergarten teacher sister questions about it. She really is the one who made it a reality. She encouraged me and re read it a hundred times giving me help with revisions. Without her support and encouragement and her saying I could write a children’s book I would not have continued.  

 Around this same time I had wanted to make my journals a public writing like a memoir but didn’t know that was what it was called. My writing education began then. I began to be interested in writing something more than just journaling. It was a sudden and unexpected turn of events. I had been a knitter until then. I knitted sweaters for everyone in the family and now I write. I still journal. But with a twist. I journal for someone else besides my self. I’ve included the reader.

Writing Prompt:  Write down your feelings the next time you are angry or especially happy. See what happens.  

 

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