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Story Craft II: A Born Storytellers Workbook
Kevin Price
The practical companion to Story Craft: a story planning project students work through in their own hand
Story Craft II is the working half of the Born Storytellers program. Story Craft sets out the theory; this workbook gives students the space to put it to work on the page, one step at a time.
Students gather ideas from the news, their family histories and their own observation, then test them with "What if … and …?" until one is strong enough to carry a story. They profile and interview their protagonist and antagonist, map the archetypes around them, and draw and interrogate a story world. They then define the central conflict and step out the plot from status quo to resolution. By the end, each student can stand up and pitch the story they are about to write.
Each step is paired with readings from Story Craft, and the program is laid out across nine weeks, from the first story idea to editing practice.
Designed to be used alongside Story Craft, which provides the readings for each step.
"Writing always begins with an observation of some sort."
About the author
Dr Kevin Price is a novelist, English teacher and long-term student of story. He began earning his living as a writer in 1988, as a magazine columnist and advertising copywriter. In 2005 he founded the Born Storytellers, a creative writing program taught in Western Australian schools and writers centres, which has published more than 60 anthologies of students' work and over 600 young authors. His doctoral research in creative writing at Murdoch University produced the political thriller Poetic Licence, also published by Crotchet Quaver noteworthy publications.
Book details
Publication information:
ISBN: 978-0-9875402-8-7
Published: 12 December 2014
Publisher: Crotchet Quaver noteworthy publications
Pages: 98
Format: Paperback, perfect bound
Dimensions: 280mm × 216mm
Retail price: $29.95 AUD
Readership:
English and creative writing teachers, Years 7–12
Secondary students, Years 7–12
Subject codes:
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Writing / Fiction Writing
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Writing / General
EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / Language Arts
Distribution:
Ingram iPage
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What's inside
A story planning process and a nine-week program outline;
Step 1: find and develop your ideas;
Step 2: create your main characters;
Step 3: populate your story;
Step 4: create your story world;
Step 5: conflict;
Step 6: develop your plot and step sheet;
Moving ahead: pitching your story.
Curriculum connections:
Years 7–10: supports the Western Australian Curriculum: English, particularly planning and developing imaginative texts within the Literature and Literacy strands, and presenting ideas orally through the story pitch;
Years 11–12, English ATAR: supports students' planning and development of their own imaginative texts;
Years 11–12, Literature ATAR: supports students' planning of their own imaginative texts, particularly short stories, and their experimentation with narrative structure;
Years 11–12, English General: gives students a structured, step-by-step process for developing an imaginative text from idea to plan.
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