With Flipped – Mystery Stories and Sci-Fi Stories, we have another first at my book club – an anthology! Full disclosure – I have a story in Flipped too, but we won’t be reading that one.
I love the idea of the Flipped books. You read a few stories, then decide you want another kind of story, so you just flip the book over and discover another genre. Short stories work well at my book club too, so there’s a lot we can do as we read this anthology.
Sci-Fi Stories
A couple of years ago, I invited a friend and NASA scientist, Dr Sreeja Nag, to conduct a session for my writing programme on science stories. Like every other guest session I’ve organised, I learned a lot from the session. What is science fiction anyway? What kinds of stories make for believable science fiction? Taking an idea from another session Sreeja conducted, we’ll explore a few writing prompts. Set a story in a place without gravity! Imagine an alien visits the earth. Create your own spaceship. What else?
Mystery Stories
I’ve said this before, and I’ll say it again – I love codes! We’ll play with a few simple codes and then write coded notes to each other in the chat box. Perhaps we could even invent a code of our own!
Writing a Story
Mystery stories are fun to read and fun to write. We worked extensively with mystery stories at my writing programme in April, and two stories the children created feature in issue 1 of our zine, Words. We’ll take small steps in the same direction as we read mystery stories at Read, Write, Explore in December ’22 – January ’23
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