What Makes a Good Story - writing workshop for children with Marian Brennan

This event is for 7-13 year olds who love writing stories. We will go through basic story structure and what makes a great story. We will discuss how to take readers into a different world, character development and creating suspense. This will be an active workshop encouraging children to write in the session.

1. What makes a good story

A discussion with the children about what they think makes a good story. We will go through how to plan your story and discuss different writing styles, and creating a world.

2.The importance of good characters

We will discuss what makes a good character and how to bring your character to life.

3. How to make your story exciting

We will go through pacing, cliff hangers and how to keep readers turning the page.

4. QnA and wrap up