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Why Children need to learn about Creative Writing! |
Anyway, so this got me to thinking. I need to organise some voluntary or employment activity for myself to maintain my mobility allowance and I would like that to be in the area of writing. I've been contemplating offering a creative writing workshop or short course at the local neighbourhood house, but having been reminded of the local arts centre twice today, I'm thinking of approaching them, as well.
Then I thought, why not put together a short course for children! It needn't focus on or prioritise grammar and punctuation, but rather introduce concepts of finding stories ideas, developing a plot and characters, how to start a story to engage the reader, creating an obstacle and resolution and so on and so forth.
I did a quick google search and was surprised to find there are VERY FEW courses like this for children! There are a couple in Sydney and South Australia, but mostly courses are about writing FOR children, not writing BY children.
Can there really be such a gap in the market? My boys have ready access to pottery, drawing, painting, drama and dance, they can learn to cook and do mosaics, but no one is offering them the opportunity to learn to write stories.

This must be fixed!
I first decided to be a writer when my prep teacher encouraged me to write a very simple story, type it up, illustrate it, and bind it. A copy was put in the school library, and I fell in love with writing. All children should have this opportunity!
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