The World You Gave Us
We are very excited to announce our latest community writing project. Last year we published our first anthology under our own imprint, Chasing Driftwood Books – Stay Home – A Year Of Writing Through Lockdown, which is now available to buy in ebook and paperback via Amazon. In January 2022 we launched our new project: The World You Gave Us. This writing project is aimed at young writers aged 25 and under and we want to know how they feel about the world they have inherited. We are looking for creative non-fiction, personal essays and opinion pieces, as well as fictional short stories and poetry.
Online Courses
Currently available:
Character Development For Young Writers
Incredible Creatures and Wonderful Worlds – Fantasy Writing For Kids
Mapping Your Place – Using maps To Inspire Stories
Character Development for Young Writers
Originally a workshop Chantelle ran for adults in person, this online course is a kid-friendly version aimed at writers aged 10-14
This course will encourage your child to create a basic character bio which they will add to throughout. The course discusses what makes a good story, what good characters should do, how to add back story and relationships to your character and the importance of doing so. It will also discuss how to create a memorable hero and villain, how to avoid stock and cloned characters and how to create realistic dialogue. There are writing exercises and resources along the way and Chantelle will respond personally to any comments in the comment box.
The course can be purchased via the link below and if you have any questions don’t hesitate to get in touch!
https://chasing-driftwood-writing-group.teachable.com/purchase?product_id=2711225
Incredible Creatures and Wonderful Worlds – Fantasy Writing For Kids
Originally a workshop Chantelle ran for children, this online version allows young writers aged 7-16 to to work through the course at their own pace. In this course students will learn about the common elements of fantasy writing, create a fantasy world by considering location, climate, resources, culture, landscape and much more, create some incredible creatures and characters, devise character arcs for their heroes and villains, create a beautiful map for their world and plot the outline of their fantasy story.
The course is available to purchase via the link below!
https://chasing-driftwood-writing-group.teachable.com/purchase?product_id=2802344
Mapping Your Place – Using Maps To Inspire Stories
Originally a workshop Chantelle ran locally, Mapping Your Place has now been developed into an online course for young writers aged 7-16 years. In this course, children will be encouraged to view maps as potential stories. They will look at some real maps and either alter them or create their own map from scratch. They will then go on to create characters to inhabit the map, and add conflict and drama to their plot. With examples of mind-maps, character bios and The Three Act Structure for story-telling, there is everything here to encourage pen to paper and complete a map inspired story.
You can purchase this course on the Teachable link below!
https://chasing-driftwood-writing-group.teachable.com/purchase?product_id=2956098
