Creative Writing Workshop: Building Stories from World to Resolution

This interactive six-week creative writing workshop teaches a step-by-step process for planning and writing engaging stories. Lessons cover setting and world building, character backstory, strong openings and hooks, sensory-rich 'show, don’t tell' writing, suspense and climax techniques, and methods for resolving and polishing a final story. Classes combine direct instruction with visual examples and modeled writing demonstrations.

Materials needed:

Learners will need:

The printable weekly writing worksheets provided by the teacher prior to each class

Pencil and eraser

Colored pencils or crayons for occasional character/setting sketch activities

A notebook or extra lined paper for longer writing responses

Access to a printer before each session

All curriculum materials, guided writing pages, and class activities are created and supplied by the teacher. No textbook purchase is required.