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Melaina Faranda
Presentations and Writing Workshops:
The Inner Magician
Duration - 1-1.5 hours
Suitable for all ages from Grade 5 up - Content is tailored to each group.
Writing an imaginative story is not a linear process, with the best and most unique and engaging ideas frequently originating from hidden creative deeps. This workshop teaches students a variety of techniques to access their own imaginative depths, through a series of specific portals into story ideas. Especially useful for NAPLAN preparation!
Topics Covered:
- How the imagination works
- Stream-of-consciousness writing for warming up
- How to get ideas through a variety of stimuli including: objects, the senses, and random words and images
Curriculum Outcomes:
- Writing and representing
- Thinking imaginatively, creatively and interpretatively
- Expressing themselves
- Create literary texts that explores students’ own experiences and imaginings
- Create literary texts using realistic and fantasy settings
- Create literary texts by using storylines, characters and settings
First Kiss or a Beer Drinking Bear?
Duration – 1 hour
Suitable from Grade 5 up - Content is tailored for each group
This author presentation uses real-life storytelling to teach story writing and telling techniques in a way in
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‘But I don’t know what to write…’ Ever heard that one before? In this fun, engaging, highly imaginative (and frequently surprising) creative writing workshop, students are taken through a process, invented by Melaina one dark and stormy night… Actually, it was a moment of playfulness that led to the invention of a writing technique which has since delighted kids and adults across Australia. Both highly enjoyable and strangely effortless, the outcome of this workshop is the beginnings, bones, inspiration, and discovery of images and stories your students might never have believed themselves capable of.
Topics covered
- How to generate an idea from ‘nothing’
- How to discover and develop story through internal perception & external experiences
- How character motivations can create plot and vice versa
- How to use the senses to deepen and enrich story
- How possessions, surroundings, and memory can create and deepen story
Curriculum outcomes
- Writing and representing
- Thinking imaginatively, creatively and interpretatively
- Expressing themselves
- Create literary texts that explores students’ own experiences and imaginings
- Create literary texts using realistic and fantasy settings
- Create literary texts by using storylines, characters and settings
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