Wisha Wozzariter.
Say it aloud.
Wisha Wozzariter was what pushed me to launch this reading programme!
Several parents have called to ask if my online creative writing programme is suited to children who want to begin the process of writing. The answer is ‘no’ because, for the most part, the children who enroll already enjoy writing. They write regularly and don’t find written assignments a chore. For children who don’t already write, the course could be daunting, and the last thing I want to do is to put children off writing altogether!
So I wanted something that would introduce creative writing in smaller, more accessible chunks. And just as I was thinking about it, I came across Wisha Wozzariter.
Wisha wants to be a writer. When she reads a book she loves – like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – she thinks, “Now that’s a book I could have written.”
Enter Bookworm, who asks the all-important question – “Well, then, why don’t you?”
And so, a wonderful journey begins, a journey that takes Wisha to the Marketplace of Ideas, the Superhero Salon and the Bargain Bazaar. With Wisha, we explore protagonists and antagonists, form, structure, style and inspiration. If this isn’t the ideal book to introduce creative writing, I don’t know what is!
Elements of a Story
What goes into the writing of a story? Wisha wishes she was a writer. What stops her?
We’ll read this book slowly, talking about the imagination that went into the writing of the story and the ways in which these ideas are linked to our own journeys as writers. Can we have a story without a villain? What do we mean by form? When do we need to flesh out a story and when do we need to cut it down?
What if...?
What if is one of the best ways to begin a story, especially when you’re stuck for ideas. A popular way of looking at many of Disney’s movies is with the question ‘what if’. What if cars had feelings? What if toys had feelings? What if feelings had feelings?
Each of these questions became a movie!
With Wisha Wozzariter, we’ll discuss a few more ‘what if’ questions. What if your protagonist was a mouse? What if you were all alone in an imaginary world? I look forward to seeing where these questions take us!
Write a Story
Since this is the last book we will be reading together, we will work on the actual writing process too. It’s easy to have ideas.
It’s a little less easy to jot these down.
The most challenging is to get these ideas together and write the first draft of a story. Let’s see what we can achieve together!
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