Parents

Creative Writing Workshops (Years 5-12)

Linda runs exciting writing workshops both for keen writers and for those who struggle, particularly under the pressure of writing to order.

Using her book Writing with Imagination (written especially for high school and TAFE students) Linda shows how she has adapted the creativity and narrative techniques she teaches professional scriptwriters into a step-by-step method of devising fiction, plays and poetry readily taught to secondary students.

Linda engages students’ attention by discussing how films as well as stories are created.

Students can work with Linda to plot an episode of their favourite TV show using the method used by professional TV writers. Here, The Simpsons is a big favourite.

Reluctant poets have fun learning to how create their own vivid imagery by combining Wordsworth’s poetics with chocolate biscuits.

Film and TV/ creative writing component of English syllabus

The new NSW English syllabus asks students to study the mechanics of film and TV to create stories based on myth.

As someone who not only writes film but teaches screenwriting internationally, with a special expertise in traditional and non-linear narrative construction, in films Linda is ideally-placed to help.

Linda provides practical as well as theoretical assistance here, providing templates for writing myth-based stories, and explaining the nuts and bolts of dialogue, subtext, and narrative build.

The Writer, The Button, The Hook and the Mountain: what a scriptwriter does

While poets and novelists are visible in every line, it is the art of dramatists, particularly scriptwriters, to be invisible, leaving little or no trace of their complex, multi-faceted craft.

Linda Aronson explains the disappearing act behind writing for film, TV series and sitcom; explores narrative links between myth, Homeric epic and modern film and TV; explains the complexities of apparently effortless dialogue and reveals audience-grabbing tricks used by dramatists from Shakespeare to Spielberg.

Helping your child with creative writing

Creative writing is part of the syllabus, but schools tend to devote little or no time to to it. Linda show parents some simple ways to employ creativity-enhancing methods used by professional writers to help reluctant writers.

All enquiries for in-house workshops should be directed to Anthony Williams Agency, 61 2 9360 3833 awagency@iprimus.com.au