Looking forward to seeing everyone at Saturday's session - same time, same place. Please encourage the Young Writers to return their completed books if possible as every single one handed in will earn its young author a Special Award Certificate. Closing date for this is now 3rd of October. Any coming in after that will still count towards their next certificate but will miss out on the Special Award - which would be a great pity after all the hard work put into it. Learning to work to a deadline is good for any aspiring writer and helps one to focus - and I have already extended this once, so it would be lovely to get them all in so I can carefully read and critique every one.
Also - let me know if you did not get a copy of the newsletter AYW - ok and please bear me in mind if there are any school fayres, bazaars or fetes coming up. And finally I do still have a number of first edition copies of my book My Writer. This would make a lovely Christmas present and only costs £4.99. I'll even sign it if you like! Just let me know and I'll fetch it along for you.
See you Saturday.
Thursday 17 September 2015
Tuesday 8 September 2015
WOW! That's All I Can Say!
Last Saturday's first session of the new school year was absolutely amazing! I could never have imagined, in my wildest dreams, that ten Young Writers would come along including three Newbies! And what an absolute pleasure it was to see everyone! Even missing Maddie turned up - and oh but has she had some adventures since I last saw her!
To kick things off gently, we just talked about what we did during the summer and wrote little reports and one or two actually brought their books along to work on which was a joy! We had a couple of little talks. I asked the Young Writers if there was anything they particularly wanted to try. The suggestions ranged from song-writing to writing and performing a play - with a smattering of "new kinds of poetry" and "new stories" thrown in for good measure. One interesting idea was to come up with a leaflet that could be taken to school and given out to friends, so I am thinking about that one.
I announced that I was planning to hold some competitions during the coming school year and arrange a couple more trips out and guest speakers in. I think the biggest surprise for everyone was when I gave out copies of the autumn newsletter - to tell the truth I was a bit surprised myself because, after months of thinking about it and planning how I could do it - I actually collated and printed off the entire thing within three days! Its title is AYW - ok (your writing - your work) which just fell into place. If you didn't get a copy and would like one, I will be bringing in some more to the next session on 19th September. My plan at the moment is to produce another around Christmas, then one around Easter and the summer one around July. That's the plan anyway!
And talking about Christmas - let me know if you'd like to buy a signed copy of my latest book My Writer. It would make a good present and - even better - it might even encourage and inspire another youngster somewhere to try their hand at Creative Writing! Or even inspire a grown-up!
And once again I am appealing for news of any Autumn or Christmas fayres or bazaars coming up at your child's school. Please be sure to let me know and I will do my best to book a table and hold a book-signing.
So that about wraps it up for now. Thanks again for your ongoing support and here's to another year of Good Writing!
To kick things off gently, we just talked about what we did during the summer and wrote little reports and one or two actually brought their books along to work on which was a joy! We had a couple of little talks. I asked the Young Writers if there was anything they particularly wanted to try. The suggestions ranged from song-writing to writing and performing a play - with a smattering of "new kinds of poetry" and "new stories" thrown in for good measure. One interesting idea was to come up with a leaflet that could be taken to school and given out to friends, so I am thinking about that one.
I announced that I was planning to hold some competitions during the coming school year and arrange a couple more trips out and guest speakers in. I think the biggest surprise for everyone was when I gave out copies of the autumn newsletter - to tell the truth I was a bit surprised myself because, after months of thinking about it and planning how I could do it - I actually collated and printed off the entire thing within three days! Its title is AYW - ok (your writing - your work) which just fell into place. If you didn't get a copy and would like one, I will be bringing in some more to the next session on 19th September. My plan at the moment is to produce another around Christmas, then one around Easter and the summer one around July. That's the plan anyway!
And talking about Christmas - let me know if you'd like to buy a signed copy of my latest book My Writer. It would make a good present and - even better - it might even encourage and inspire another youngster somewhere to try their hand at Creative Writing! Or even inspire a grown-up!
And once again I am appealing for news of any Autumn or Christmas fayres or bazaars coming up at your child's school. Please be sure to let me know and I will do my best to book a table and hold a book-signing.
So that about wraps it up for now. Thanks again for your ongoing support and here's to another year of Good Writing!
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