Creative Writing Camp Day 3

1. WELCOME BACK
Awesome to see you!
Please grab your writing journal
& your note taking tools.

2. Checking in...
How did your writing assignment go?
What were your successes?
What were your challenges?
Did you find writing with a lot of emotion challenging?

3. Home Writing Challenge Exchange
Looking for feedback to drive us to excellence

4. Did you know...
Writing so your audience will
Catch The Idea
Is MORE important than putting a lot of words on the page?
We call it creative writing but it is very exact and
purposeful.
What does this information say to You?

5. Creative Writing Can Be:
Novels
Short stories
Flash fiction
Poetry
Plays
Song lyrics
Movie scripts
Speeches

6. Overwhelmed?
How do I climb a mountain…
one step at a time!
How do I write a
story?
one theme at a time!

7. Themes may be:
Good Vs Evil
Love
Redemption
Courage
Revenge

8. Themes are:
*The message
*The big idea
*The reason and purpose of the
piece
Use conversations,
dialogue, and situations to
help relay the theme of
your story to your reader.

9. Let’s find the theme is these sentences:
*I had wanted a dog since I was 5 and spent the summer at Grandma’s farm.
* Witches always scared me, I wish that house didn’t have the best candy; chocolate not gum.
*I like to make mine with extra mayonnaise and that seeded bread that dad buys from the bakery.
*My head hurt and so did my throat. I could hear my brother laughing in the other room. I wish I could
be having fun too.
*My fingers were stiff and my fingertips hurt. I didn’t realize this was part of the learning process.

10. Will I still be me
Or would I become pure good
And bring forth peaceful things to
the end my life
Or will I become absolute evil
To remain bound to my chains for all
eternity
As these being my final words
Just go and leave this hideous
creature
Bound in chains for the sins he has
made
GRAVEYARD
By David Wagner
I’m here bounded for life
Come to me
Break these chains that hold me
back
help me bring my life back
I know, I know
This may all frighten you
But please free me from this life of
torment
Who will remember me now
Not as this decaying evil soul
That I most proudly show
But as this peaceful hearted man
That I desperately hold within
These two sides of me fights for
everlasting control
Good Vs. Evil
If one finally wins

11. WRITING CHALLENGE-POEM or SHORT STORY
Think of a story___________ based on an idea, experience, dream, or piece of art.
Step 1-Write 100-120 words focusing on emotional descriptions to let reader feel your writing. Additionally choose a
specific theme; love, courage, good vs evil revenge and drive your readers to it through conversations between your
character, or dialogue within your subject’s mind.
Step 2-Reread. Add or change where you think can or should in order to produce excellent work. Each time you open your
journal indicate it with a date stamp. Reread your work several times (2-3) before moving on to the next step.
Step 3-Let it rest
Step 4- Reread and make any final changes to your short story or poem.
Step 5- present it to your writing circle at ESTEAM