Narrative Writing Student

Learning Goals
Two
things I did well last year

Three things I will improve
What can my teacher do to help me?
I learn best when
Last year I enjoyed
Complete on loose paper and hand to Ms

Di Benedetto
English Term 1
Assessments
Narrative Writing Task

Persuasive Writing Task
Independent Reading Oral
Critical Reading (comprehension)
Spelling Tests
Grammar Test
Class Work (Save everything to one file)
Submitting Assignments
Hard copy (printed off)
Cover sheet (rubric)
Lateness
Technology is not an excuse
10% for 1 day late

20% for 2 days late
30% for 3 days late
ZERO for 4 or more days
I lost my work
USB issues
Work should be saved in AT LEAST 2 places
Plagiarism
What
is Plagiarism?
Plagiarism
means that you have submitted an assignment using someone

elses work, without acknowledging what you have copied or its source.
You
commit plagiarism if you include as your work:

Part or all of a written, spoken or computergenerated assignment
copied from another persons assignment, manuscript, notes or
digital files without correct acknowledgement.
Part or all of an assignment copied, paraphrased or accessed
from a print source or a digital source without correct
acknowledgement.
Ideas, designs, graphics, pictures belonging to another person
without correct acknowledgement.
It
is plagiarism if you:
Allow others to access your files or
writing (in draft or finished format).
Do an assignment for another
student.
How do I acknowledge someone
elses work correctly?
You should use the Referencing
generator on the Campion Library
Site.
Consequences
You
will receive a ZERO

You will be asked to resubmit
your work
The ZERO will still stand
What homework will I have?

Reading
every night (15 20 minutes)

Completing grammar activities
(preparation for test)
Spelling test revision
Drafting assignments
Completing assignments
Finishing bookwork
Term 1 Grammar
Commas
Apostrophes
Quotation marks
Revision of verbs, nouns, adverbs and adjectives
Writing sentences
Word order
Spelling Tests
Every
week/fortnight
You will be expected to revise in your
homework time
Independent Reading
1 lesson a fortnight in the Library (Friday
Week A)
Why is reading the most important thing you
will ever do?
ALWAYS have a book with you in class!
Keep a Reading Log (computer file)
CREATE NOW
Title.Author.Number of Pages.Date
completed.Rating /5
Title
Author
No of
pages
Date
completed
Rating /5
*****
Paper
Towns
John
Green
200
4th of Feb
2016
4/5
Independent Reading
Each
week 2 4 students present an

oral book review of 2 - 3 minutes.
Only read/review texts that interest you!

This can include: non-fiction, journals,
magazines, podcasts, blogs.
Task available on Moodle
Reading Aloud
You
are invited to bring in a text that

you have enjoyed having read to you.
You are invited to recreate this
experience with your peers in our
Reading Circles
Choose a paragraph that you enjoyed

Be prepared to read this in your small
group
How Books Opened My Mind
Do you like reading? Why/why not? (be

honest)
What type of books do you prefer to read?
What time of day do you prefer to read?
Where do you like to read?
If you find it difficult to get motivated to
read, what do you think is stopping you?
Why do you think reading is important?
Submit
this on loose leaf paper to Ms Di

Benedetto (3/4 page response)
Creative
Writing
Narrative Writing with
Ms Di Benedetto
You will need

A
book you really enjoyed reading

A book you would like to read but
havent had a chance
An image (without people) that you like
An image (with people) that you like
An image (with an animal) that you like
You can find these images online
Exercise 1:
Photos and
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Post-its
Form
groups of three or four, Person 1 has one minute to tell the story of their
photo. No interruptions.
At
the end of the minute, Persons 2, 3 and 4 write their name and three more
questions (on a Post-it note )to push the narrative a bit further. Keep this Post-it note
to yourself until everyone has had their turn.
Share
your post-it notes, clarifying and encouraging each other to develop the story
of that photo.
Write
for ten minutes, attempting to capture that moment in words.

use some figurative language (personification/metaphors/similes)
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Exercise 2:
Take a novel
Don lifted himself up out of his
chair and went over to a
drawer in the kitchen. Out of it
he pulled a colour
photographThe woman next
to him could have been his
daughter, her blonde hair in a
ponytail, a long-beaked nose
and her mouth open,
laughing. Her hand rested on
the head of a small child, who
held a fistful of her turquoise Rosie Kerin www.writeme.net.au 2014
bomber jacket in his paw. (p.
148)
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Exercise 2:
Take a
novel
___ lifted himself up out ______
and went over to _____ in
the_____. Out of it he pulled a
colour photographThe _____
next to him could have
been_____, her hair _____, a
____ nose and her _______
laughing. Her hand _____
head of a small child, who
held a ______in his ____.
Rosie Kerin www.writeme.net.au 2014
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Exercise 2:
Take a
novel
Back home, mum pours a

glass of wine, does nothing
about making lunch for the
triplets who bang through the
cupboards, looking for food.
Iris is already upstairs, out of
the way of all of us. I perch on
the kitchen table with Mum,
and Dad opens a beer and
stands with his back to us. (p.
198)
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Exercise 2:
Take a
novel
Back home, mum _____, does
nothing about _______ who
______. ______ is already_____,
out of the way of ______. I perch
on _____ with Mum ______ , and
Dad opens ________ and stands
______. (p. 198)
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Exercise 2:
Take a
novel
Find a small section of a
novel and rewrite it,
allocating substitute sections
of each sentence to create a
new narrative thread.
Write solidly for ten minutes,
aiming to work beyond the
modified text to create your
own extension.
http://www.bookdepository.com/All-BirdsSinging-Miles-Franklin-Award-winner-2014
-Evie-Wyld/
9780099572374
Spontaneous Writing
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No sentence can be effective if it contains

facts alone. It must also contain emotion,
image, logic, and promise. Eugene
Schwartz (copywriter)
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Insert facts
Create Images
Evoke emotion
Make promises
Practice, practice, practice.
http://www.copyblogger.com/damn-good-sentences/
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http://www.copyblogger.com/damn-good-sentences/
Points of View
Read
pages 220 221
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Opening lines
For all her chic thinness, she had an almost breakfast-cereal air
of health, a soap-and-lemon cleanness, a rough pink darkening
of the cheeks. --Truman Capote, "Breakfast at Tiffany's," 1958
The house was far from everything, in the heart of the desert,
next to a settlement with miserable, burning streets where the
goats committed suicide from desolation when the winds of
misfortune blew. --Gabriel Garcia Marquez, "The Incredible and
Sad Tale of Innocent Erindira and Her Heartless Grandmother,"
1973
How to make your story

interesting
The
opening sentence (very important)
A school camp
Winning the lotto
Surviving an earthquake
Swap
your sentences with the person next to you
Choose a sentence of your partners work to draft

(rewrite)
Constructive
feedback how to make it more

creative, captivating, use 5 senses.
Choose another sentence from your partner and

reword it with a different point of view.
Write an opening line
Write your own sentences

Simple
sentence
Compound sentence
Complex sentence
Theme: The grave yard
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Exercise 3: Sentence
structuresFind three great sentences
one simple, one compound,

one complex. Consider:
Subject and verb at
beginning?
Information?
Image?
Emotion?
A promise of more to come?
A confident writer?
Copy each of your chosen
sentences Rosie
onto
Kerin www.writeme.net.au
paper or 2014
screen.
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structures
Simple:
The teacher walked into the room.
Compound:
The teacher walked into the room and collapsed onto the chair.
The teacher walked into the room, heard the noise of too many
kids, and collapsed onto the chair.
Complex:
The teacher walked into the room, heard the noise of too many
kids, and collapsed onto the chair that had been used as the
missile on Monday.
In the simplest terms: http://www.wikihow.com/Write-a-Sentence

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structures
I only remember looking up.
His left hand was raised and
he was slumped motionless.
At first I thought he was
making a failed joke, an
attempt to make the
difficulty of the day seem
manageable.
Joan Didion (2005) The
Rosie Kerin www.writeme.net.au
2014
Year of Magical
Thinking,
p. 10.
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xercise 3: Sentence structures

Simple compound complex
I only remember looking
up.
Add something to make it a
compound sentence.
Add something to make it a
complex sentence.
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xercise 3: Sentence structures

I only remember looking
up.
I only remember looking up
and wondering what he was
doing.
I only remember looking up, annoyed
at his foolishness, wondering what he
was doing.
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ercise 3: Sentence structures

He was slumped motionless.

His left hand was raised
and he was slumped
motionless.
His left hand was raised and
he was slumped motionless,
though he seemed to be
staring back at me in
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Twitter fiction:
Crafting a story out of 140
characters maximum, including
spaces:
Twitterature:
Using twitter to
innovate new
text from old.
Twitter novels
see David
Mitchells in
progress
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Twitter fiction:
Crafting a story out of 140
characters maximum, including
spaces:
Twitterature:
Genovese scientist creates murderous, demonic
monster/ gentle misunderstood creature. Moral
dilemmas and gothic stereotypes ensue
https://twitter.com/PercivalLibrary
Continuing investigation. Made brilliant

deductions on many snorts and very little
evidence. Notice salt deposits on factory owner's
shoes?
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2009/sep/18/classic-works-twitterature-book
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I thought I had a happy

childhood: trees, books,
scones. Then I met my
shrink. It turned out I
was a maniac. And now
considerably poorer.
By Charlotte Mendelson
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/aug/17/twitter-fiction-charlo
tte-mendelson
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Hari Kunzru
I'm here w/ disk. Where
ru? Mall too crowded
tosee. I don't feel safe.
What do you mean you
didn't send any text?
Those aren't your guys?
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/oct/12/twitter-fiction-140-char
acternovels
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Londoners
The man on the Northern
line pulleda long blond
hair from the sleeve of
his black jacket;
regardedits length; let it
drift to thefloor.
Craig Taylor
http
://www.guardianbookshop.co.uk/BerteShopWeb/v
iewProduct.do?ISBN=9781847083296
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Exercise 4: Twitter
fiction
Create a piece of twitter fiction
(140 characters maximum,
including spaces)
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Emoticon
stories
Cinderella in Emotions
Choose a fairytale write an Emotican st

ory!
http://9gag.com/gag/aBKLyDx/cinderella-in-emoticons
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Exercise 5: Using images as

prompts
Photo: Rosie Kerin. Barossa Valley, Nov 2013

2014
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Exercise 6: Using images

as prompts
From www.humansofnewyork.com
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rcise 7: Using images as prompts
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Never Let Me Go - by Cathy Lennon

FIRST PRIZE - 100 Word Competition 2014
First it was cartons and tins on the worktops, then newspapers on
the stairs. Each window-sill sparkled with tin foil. He made me a
necklace of ring-pulls and bottle tops. Like swans we perched on
our bundles of rags and flattened boxes, smoothing the creases
from wrappers. The hallway was Manhattan, a canyon of
towering piles. Across the no mans land in our bedroom our
fingertips would touch, until one day they couldnt anymore.
From the other side, perplexed, he watched the tears slide down
my face. He threw me two empty film canisters to catch them in.
http://nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/stories.html
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Exercise 10: Six word

memoirs
http://vimeo.com/8562043
Go back to your beginnings....create a six word

memoir/story
Exercise 10: Six word

memoirs
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Go back to your opening photo (or

any other ideas you have). Create a
six word memoir.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
ouAp3JbTQAM
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Life stories
ouAp3JbTQAM
ACMI digital stories as forms of creative
non-fiction
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Tropfest winner
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Horowitz is a cognitive
scientist.
She challenges us to see

the familiar with new
eyes.
Amazon audio sample
Exercise 11: On
Looking
Wide-eyed seers
You have 30 minutes each to walk
around the block, paying attention
to what you see. No communication
with other participants.
Pick a random role to determine
what you will attend to as you walk
Use your eyes, notes, camera to
record what you see.
Be ready to talk and write about
your observations when you return.
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Roles for writing perspectives

A
person in a wheel chair

A woman who has just had her child pass away
A young excited boy
A person new to Australia
Someone who finds it difficult to fit in
A disgruntled teacher
Someone passionate about the environment
Someone who has just experienced loss
Someone in love
A person with multiple personalities
A 3 year old girl
An optimist
A pessimist
Show not tell

What
do you think this technique

means?
What is the painter trying to

SHOW us?
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Write about being a writer without using the words

write/writer/writing etcThis was from Amber (aged 13).
Promoting imagery
Word Warrior
I choose my weapon carefully, for I am about to wage a
war.
I stand in the middle of the battlefield, scrawling, as
imagination and inspiration shoot off ideas. I run into
battle head on, before I turn back, retreating as I try to get
the cogs turning. Soon I find my rhythm.
I stride through the pages; stopping at paragraphs that
need tweaking. If I find a word out of place I pull out the
fine-tooth comb thats kept in the back pocket of my mind.
I wage the best sort of war; I wage a war of creation.
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Write about death

You cannot use any of the following words
in any form:
Death
Grief
Cry
Life
Funeral
Passed on or other euphemisms for
death
2014
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Describe the colour green

Imagine you are describing the colour to a blind
person.
You cannot use the word green
Describe the colour red
When you dip her in the middle of the dance floor, it is the
colour of her dress. When she whispers in your ear, it is
the colour of her lips. When she places her palm over your
heart, it is the colour that comes to the surface as her
fingertips trail like a sentence that can never be finished.
When you see her with another, it is the colour of your
breath. When you smash the vase in the hall, it is the
colour that threatens you to abandon the shattered
pieces. When you scream at the top of your lungs, it is the
colour that pierces the atmosphere. When she hears you,
it is the colour of her pulse. When you look in her eyes for
the last time, it is the fading colour of your heart falling to
your knees. It is not the colour you see when she leaves.
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Some editing tips
Cut it back by 10% (and then by another 10%)Write a one word

summary next to each paragraph to describe what you have achieved.
Use word count to map out your plot: too long to get into the action?
Try the second or third paragraph as your starting point. Did you need
the earlier paragraphs or just a word or two from them.
Which senses do you engage?
Do you use adverbs and adjectives sparingly?
Check each line of dialogue: does it suit the age, location, interests,
education, cultural background of the character?
Have you used a variety of sentence lengths and complexity? Have you
used them to effect?
Have you set out dialogue correctly? Check a novel on the bookshelf.
Ask someone to tell you the best thing about your story AND one thing
you should change or delete or that was not clear?
Have you aroused curiosity and given the reader something to
love/loatheyou want the reader to have a position or to care.
Come back to it later. And cut it by 10% again!
Proofreading
Read aloud always. Better still, listen to someone else read it.
If theres a stumble, fix it.
Hold it at a distance is it in manageable pieces (paragraphs) for the reader or does
it look too hard to engage with? Think here about how you react when you turn the
page of a novel and it is solid text without dialogue and without paragraph breaks.
Look at each sentence separately use spell check (on your computer and another
person if necessary).
Do not use too many !!!!! or ?????? It makes you look insecure.
Check your tenses.
Check apostrophes, and if in doubt, do not use the apostrophe.
Check capitalisation.
Get rid of any phrases or descriptions that are too well used (clichs).
Have you set out dialogue correctly? Check a novel on the bookshelf and follow
those rules. You may find that some novelists do it differently...look for those things
as you read. The most important thing is to be consistent.
The last thing to do is to see if you need to cut it again by 10%. Or do you need to
add some more movement somewhere, some dialogue or an appeal to the senses
that would add texture and movement to the story. After proofreading, its always a
good idea to read it aloud and edit again if necessary.
The Shape of
your Story
Structure and language
features
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Story Shapes
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Plot structures
https://wikis.engrade.com/
plottingashortstory
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Plot structures
http://preciouslyana.wordpress.com/2010/04/01/how-to-analyze-short-story-plot/
Plot structures
ingridsnotes.wordpress.c
om
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Exercise 9: Plot
structures
Select ONE of piece of
writing you have already
commenced in this
unit.one with potential
for a narrative
Using this plotting
structure outline your
story
http://preciouslyana.wordpress.com/2010/04/01/how-to-analyze-short-story-plot/
Creating the Story

Read
pages 218 219 in textbook

Complete Question 2
Orientation
Setting
the scene
Create a visual picture of the setting,
atmosphere and time of the story
Describing a setting
Create
a feeling/atmosphere
Romantic, threatening, welcoming
oppressive low ceiling and blood-red

curtains
cosy low ceiling and cheerful red curtains
the ceiling loomed over our heads
the ceiling cradled us like a womb
Strong
nouns and verbs to achieve the

effect, not adjectives.
Elements of Setting
Location:
The football field, prison cell, in
Paris
Time: When is the narrative taking place?
Seasonal time: Is it winter or summer?
Daily time: Is it morning or evening?
Weather: What is the temperature like? Is it
humid? Raining?
You dont need to include all of this just focus

on what is relevant and will create interest
The 5 Senses
Think
about and use your 5 senses, and

make your reader use theirs, too.
Sight
Sound
Touch
Taste
Smell
Using the 5 senses in your

writing
Imagine you have just awakened in your

bed. What time is it? How do you know,
without looking at a clock? If you hear
birdsong and garbage trucks, its probably
early in the morning. If you hear people
talking and laughing on the street, its
probably later. How bright is the light
coming through your window? Do you smell
something cooking, or coffee brewing?
Whats the temperature like?
Describing a setting
Look
at the images that follow

The place where the story will occur
Think about the 5 senses when you are writing
Write a descriptive beginning paragraph for the
story
You MUST use 2 of the following

Simile
Metaphor
Imagery
personification
Further Setting Challenge

Describe
in detail a place you know well

(your bedroom, your classroom, the
house you grew up in, your church, the
local movie theatre, etc.). Make sure to
use strong nouns and verbs, and watch
out for clichs and too many adjectives
or adverbs (very, too, much, heaps). Try
to appeal to at least three of the five
senses.
2 sentences
Go Further
Now
describe that place again,

attempting to communicate each of the
following atmospheres, in turn:
Dont forget the 5 senses
Gloomy
mysterious
From another persons/things perspective
Writing to Engage
Read
pages 222 and 223

Questions 1, 2 and 3 on page 222
Questions 3, 4 and 5 on page 223
Characters
In
the orientation of your story, you

also need to introduce your main
characters.
To make more interesting writing, you
should include some clues about
upcoming complicationsbut dont give
any secrets away!
Creating Character Profiles

Name:
Age:
Occupation:
Family
Background:
3 Likes:
3 Dislikes:
1 major life regret:
1 thing your character is looking forward
to
Setting + Character Challenge

Choose
a setting you wrote about

previously
Choose a character profile you created
Insert your character into the setting
and come up with an orientation to a
story (5-8 sentences).
Complication
AKA:
The problem
Complication
This
is where a problem or complication

occurs, that affects the setting,
characters or time.
Activity
Continue on with the story you have

created thus far and go further by
including the complication
Complication
How
did the problems/conflict begin?

What consequences were there for the
characters involved
How did the problems change
relationships between the characters?
1. Minor Resolution
This
is where the problem seems to be

resolved but it is really not!
2. Complication/New Problem
Now
the problem is even worse than

before.
Can you think of some examples of this?
Resolution
How
did the characters solve the

problem?
Were all the people happy with the
outcome?
Textbook Pages
Page
224 varying story structure

Page 226 227
Page 228 229
Questions 1, 2, and 3 (p 228)
Page
Questions 1 6 (p 230)
Page
230 231
332
Questions 1 4 (p 332)

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Learning Goals

things I did well last year

Complete on loose paper and hand to Ms

Narrative Writing Task

Technology is not an excuse

10% for 1 day late

Work should be saved in AT LEAST 2 places

means that you have submitted an assignment using someone

commit plagiarism if you include as your work:

will receive a ZERO

What homework will I have?

every night (15 20 minutes)

Revision of verbs, nouns, adverbs and adjectives

week 2 4 students present an

Only read/review texts that interest you!

are invited to bring in a text that

Choose a paragraph that you enjoyed

How Books Opened My Mind

Do you like reading? Why/why not? (be

this on loose leaf paper to Ms Di

You will need

book you really enjoyed reading

You can find these images online

for ten minutes, attempting to capture that moment in words.

Back home, mum pours a

Rosie Kerin www.writeme.net.au 2014

No sentence can be effective if it contains

pages 220 221

Rosie Kerin www.writeme.net.au 2014

How to make your story

opening sentence (very important)

your sentences with the person next to you

Choose a sentence of your partners work to draft

feedback how to make it more

Choose another sentence from your partner and

Write an opening line

Write an opening line

Write an opening line

Write your own sentences

Theme: The grave yard

one simple, one compound,

In the simplest terms: http://www.wikihow.com/Write-a-Sentence

xercise 3: Sentence structures

xercise 3: Sentence structures

ercise 3: Sentence structures

He was slumped motionless.

Continuing investigation. Made brilliant

Rosie Kerin www.writeme.net.au 2014

I thought I had a happy

Rosie Kerin www.writeme.net.au 2014

Rosie Kerin www.writeme.net.au 2014

Rosie Kerin www.writeme.net.au 2014

Choose a fairytale write an Emotican st

Exercise 5: Using images as

Photo: Rosie Kerin. Barossa Valley, Nov 2013

Rosie Kerin www.writeme.net.au

Exercise 6: Using images

rcise 7: Using images as prompts

Rosie Kerin www.writeme.net.au 2014

Never Let Me Go - by Cathy Lennon

Exercise 10: Six word

Go back to your beginnings....create a six word

Exercise 10: Six word

Go back to your opening photo (or