Creative Writing Camp Day 5

1. Welcome Back!
Please grab your writing Journal and note taking supplies

2. Checking in...
How did your writing go this week?
What were your successes?
What were your challenges?
Did you find using a plot helped to hold your story together?
How and why?

3. Home Writing Challenge Exchange
Looking for feedback that will drive us and inspire us to excellence

4. Our last day together….
What have you learned?
Do you have any unanswered questions?
What do you wish we would have covered?
Have you bonded with the writing process?
Do you feel any passion to write?
When will writing be useful or necessary in your future?

6. The definition of time is the evidence of change
The previous picture is in black and white.
A useful tool- as it shows contrast and
details that may be missed otherwise.
Look closely at your writing. Where and
how can it be developed?
Is it worth the effort?
Will the effort bring color and light?

7. On Monday we looked at 3 things-that writers
charistically do...
WRITERS
WRITE
WRITERS
PRACTICE

8. & Writers..
READ

9. Short stories from Hollis Montessori school
She is dreaming. Dreaming of flying with the birds. She swoops through the
clouds, graceful and swift. She sees the city below her, but only the sky
above. Endless, blank sky. She drops through the clouds so she can see
the land more clearly. There are buildings, small as anthills and cars, like
ants, dodging between them. And there is the ocean! Deep, empty, never
ending, just like the sky. She flies towards it. There are boats and a few
small islands, but so much of the ocean is empty, quiet and beautiful. Then
she is falling, falling towards the sea. . . . -HMS 7th grade student

10. 100 word short story Hollis Montessori
I am a snowflake, beautiful, crystalline. I am a snowflake, carefully constructed.
We are packed tight, but we know. We know that any minute one of us will fall
from this cloud, from each other. I have never been a snowflake before. I have
been shower water and a puddle and flower nutrients, and even holy water that
has been blessed and scented. Snowflakes begin to fall. There are less and
less of us separating me from open air. My first fall. I detach from the others
and I am alone, falling, drifting, gliding down to an uncertain future. -HMS 7th
grade student

11. Another Example from Hollis Montessori
Eyes open to the crashing chirps of the clock. Weary days, waking,
breakfast, work, money, winter; stumbling in and out of the bathroom,
closet, chair, out of his house. Doors slam. The man trudges to work.
Weighing and boxing paper clips, sitting for minutes, hours, days, and
dreary years. 100 clips. 180 boxes. 9 hours. 162,000 clips. He trudges
home, buying a hot cocoa. On the curb, a girl in a poncho stares at the
puddle and paper cup at her feet, dog sitting by; guilty. Minutes later the
man opens his front door, no cocoa in hand, smile flickering. -HMS 9th
grade student

12. Last awesome story from Hollis Montessori
One hundred words. That seems like a lot of words, but it only come out as
about a paragraph, which isn't very much. I hear one hundred and naturally
think "big". In the right context, one hundred is a big number, but really, when
compared to even greater numbers, such as one million, its size pales in
comparison, and comes off looking quite small. So, when you think of the huge
amounts of words in a story, the one hundred words in a paragraph don't even
come close to seeming a significant part of the story. Not even. -HMS 8th
grade student

13. Keep Writing-Writers Write!
Think of a story___________ based on an idea, experience, dream, or piece of art.
Step 1-Write 150 -200 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

14. & Writers Read
I challenge you to read 1 story each day/ or an hour a day -reading.
While reading notice the:
Plot and the theme.
Is the character in the 1st, 2nd or 3rd person POV?
Is the writing real, honest, raw and full of description.
Keep reading, keep writing, your adventure awaits you!