# 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](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hHGS2TiMTRpQKWONsKW24HquJ2qSxelAcQEX_5Jzz90/edit?usp=sharing) ### 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!