

Thu, 13 Feb
|Maraetai Coastguard Building
Creative Writing
Join a 9-week creative writing course to establish a regular writing routine. Each session begins with warm-up exercises to enhance our creative writing skills. Following this, we engage in an extended writing activity and have the option to share your work with peers for feedback.
Time & Location
13 Feb 2025, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Maraetai Coastguard Building, 211 Maraetai Drive, Manukau, Maraetai 2018, New Zealand
About
Join a 9-week creative writing course to establish a regular writing routine. Each session begins with warm-up exercises to enhance our creative writing skills. Following this, we engage in an extended writing activity and have the option to share your work with peers for feedback.
Most important is the course is intended to be fun. In it, you will explore various techniques and finish the nine weeks by writing a short story which you can enter for an in-house competition.
Course Outline:
Suitable for beginners or those with some experience, 14 years +. All you need is a notebook, a pen and your imagination.
Session 1 – Questionnaire. Previous experience and expectations.
Session 2 – i) OBJECTS / (ii) PEOPLE / (iii) PLACES / (iv) SPACES. Choose one and follow the writing prompt.
Session 3 - A person who has influenced you. Writing the opposite. Flashback. Dialogue.
Session 4 – Writing lists. Choosing your top 5 and writing the opening of a story or poem.
Session 5 – Forbidden secrets. What are you not allowed or not allowing yourself to speak about? Show, don’t tell.
Session 6 – Short story. Story problem and story loops.
Session 7 – Character. Protagonist -v- Antagonist. How characters change. Character arc and character flows.
Session 8 – Plot formulas. Outline and begin to write short story.
Session 9 – Complete story and share.
Tickets
Creative Writing
Maraetai Coastguard Building
NZ$170.00+NZ$4.25 service fee
Total
NZ$0.00