What You’ll Do

• Join a small group of 4-8 students and meet once a week in an ongoing class
• Complete weekly challenges that stretch your imagination and build creative writing skills
• Write scripts, short stories, plays, poems, etc. through guided activities
• Some challenges will be individual and others will be collaborating with your peers to create characters, worlds, conflicts, and surprising plot twists
• At the end of each session, share your work and see how everyone’s different imaginations take the same beginning prompt to different places

What You’ll Learn

Story Fundamentals: Characters, setting, conflict, plot, storytelling structure for different mediums, etc.

Writing Skills: Dialogue, scene writing, script formatting, descriptive detail, and voice

Creative Thinking: World building, brainstorming, collaborative ideation, problem solving through storytelling, and outside the box thinking

Expression & Confidence: Sharing work aloud, giving and receiving feedback, and walking away with pieces of writing material you can be proud of

Here is a link to the syllabus: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hHGS2TiMTRpQKWONsKW24HquJ2qSxelAcQEX_5Jzz90/edit?usp=sharing

What You’ll Need

• A laptop or desktop computer with a working microphone and camera
• A space where you can write comfortably without distraction
• Google Docs, Word, a pencil and paper, or whatever writing tool works best for you (templates will be provided when needed)

Meet Lanie

Lanie Siegel is a professional television writer. She’s written on shows including The Neighborhood (CBS) and Act Your Age (Netflix), and has a few features and a novel in development. She knows the ins and outs of writing for all mediums and is excited to share her knowledge with you!