Storytelling Workshop

Creative and fun weekly storytelling challenges!

Writing / Storytelling

Organized by Lanie

Hosted by 1 expert guide

What You’ll Do

  • Join a small group of 4-8 students and meet once a week in an ongoing class
  • Complete weekly challenges that stretch your imagination and build creative writing skills
  • Write scripts, short stories, plays, poems, etc. through guided activities
  • Some challenges will be individual and others will be collaborating with your peers to create characters, worlds, conflicts, and surprising plot twists
  • At the end of each session, share your work and see how everyone’s different imaginations take the same beginning prompt to different places

What You’ll Learn

Story Fundamentals: Characters, setting, conflict, plot, storytelling structure for different mediums, etc.

Writing Skills: Dialogue, scene writing, script formatting, descriptive detail, and voice

Creative Thinking: World building, brainstorming, collaborative ideation, problem solving through storytelling, and outside the box thinking

Expression & Confidence: Sharing work aloud, giving and receiving feedback, and walking away with pieces of writing material you can be proud of

Here is a link to the syllabus: Syllabus

What You’ll Need

  • A laptop or desktop computer with a working microphone and camera
  • A space where you can write comfortably without distraction
  • Google Docs, Word, a pencil and paper, or whatever writing tool works best for you (templates will be provided when needed)

Meet Lanie

Lanie Siegel is a professional television writer. She’s written on shows including The Neighborhood (CBS) and Act Your Age (Netflix), and has a few features and a novel in development. She knows the ins and outs of writing for all mediums and is excited to share her knowledge with you!

Course updates

1 day ago
Class Canceled: Storytelling Workshop on Tuesday, May ** at **: ** PM PDT has been canceled.

Reason: I will be out of town for our class on May **th and **th.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

Apr 7 @ 7:03 PM
Great work today! We started with a group warm-up writing a silly Mad-Libs. Then, individually, I asked everyone a series of questions (mad-libs style) which led to the beginning of a unique story! Excited to continue writing them next week.

In the meantime, here is the group Mad...

Mar 31 @ 7:06 PM
Today we learned to write Limericks! We wrote a few as a group and a few solo. Lots of fun and creativity! See you next week.

Mar 24 @ 7:02 PM
Fun class today! We learned about Haikus, wrote one together as a class, and then wrote some by ourselves! Lots of fun learning about syllables and writing under strict confines. See everyone next week!

Jan 6 @ 7:08 PM
Great work today. So exciting to have *** join our class! We refreshed on the main elements of a story and talked about different POVs a story can be written from. We continued working on our short story, "The Adventures of Dragonathaniel" (working title), and will continue writing next week!