Dee author visits & workshops

School & Library Visits

Why invite me?

• You enjoy my writing
• You have your own stories to tell and you need someone to help you work out how
• You want to inspire your students
• Your students have read or studied my work
• You want your students to enjoy a unique creative experience

Workshops I can run

• Ideas: – finding them and getting the story started
• “Heroes & Villains” – learn how to make up your own characters and use them to create an action-packed story
• How to become a writer
• Turning an experience into a story
• Explore the writer in you
• Sessions designed around a particular topic, theme or piece of writing

To book me or find out more

I have done many school visits, including an Author-in-Residence, progressive workshops with children, and helping students to create and edit an anthology. I live in country Victoria, Australia and am happy to travel anywhere at home or abroad.
Email your details to: Dee*AT*deescribe*DOT*com*DOT*au, and I will get in touch with you.

Teacher’s Notes and Exercises

• Point of View – Tells you from whose view the story is being told.
  Exercise: Write a short piece about what you ate for breakfast, then rewrite it from the point of view of the food.

• Beginnings, middles and ends – Every story has a beginning, a middle and an end.
  Exercise: Take the last sentence of a story you like, and use it as the beginning in your own piece of writing.

• Plot – A plot is a plan or map of your story; deciding what is going to happen and when it will occur.
  Exercise: Do you think it is necessary to plan a story before you write it? Explain your reasons?

• Setting –  Setting gives a story credibility. It provides important information about where and when the story takes place.
  Exercise: Why do you think many horror stories are set at night?

• The Story Problem –Every story needs a story problem which the main character must face. Conflict gives the main character something to do.
  Exercise: You are writing a story about a teenager who is having an argument with a farmer. What do you think a source of conflict might be?