Wednesday night was the last night of my writing for children Short Course at RMIT. I have to say it was such a pleasure to teach – I had a wonderful class of people with varied imaginations and ideas. And they’d better keep me in the loop! I don’t doubt that there will be some books coming from these people. Next year I hope to run two of these classes, one each semester. It would be good to play with the formula a little though. It is a six week intensive course that really crams an awful lot into the time, as you’d hope. One of the difficulties for the students is to find adequate time to work on story drafts in between the classes. What I’d like – and I’d value your input – is to have a break after week 4 and come back a month later for the final two classes. I may also make it so that the focus is entirely on picture books with week 5 being solely devoted to workshopping, and the final class all about presenting to publishers. I think it could work well.
It’s been a busy week actually. There were school visits to Ardeer Sth Primary on Monday and Tuesday - hi kids! You were brilliant!! And yesterday I did an 8 min talk representing the ASA at the Melbourne Writer’s Festival. As you’d imagine it was all over very fast… it was part of a whole day of info about the business of being a writer.
I have another MWF session next weekend at ArtPlay, a wonderful business located below Fed Square along the banks of the Yarra River.
Kid’s Art Workshop – WordPlay @ ArtPlay
For more info and to book… click here
On Saturday 29th
At 12, 1:15 & 2:30pm
