Creative Writing For Young Writers

Hi!

Are you ready to unleash your imagination, have some fun and learn new writing skills?

Great!--I'm visualising you nodding. Throw out the nerves cause this workshop offers a supportive, skill-building environment where you’ll be encouraged to explore your creativity, develop your writing craft, and gain clarity around your voice and storytelling style.

Through guided writing exercises, practical techniques, and thoughtful feedback, you’ll learn how to shape compelling narratives, create authentic characters, and write with emotional depth.

The workshop also provides tools for overcoming common blocks such as self-doubt, perfectionism, and lack of structure or discipline.

Whether your goal is to write personal stories, fiction, or a memoir, this workshop will help you stop procrastinating and inspire you to write with purpose. Think of it as an opportunity to learn, connect with other writers, and refine your writing skills — with guidance that meets you where you are and encourages you to explore the depths of your imagination.

Whether you're a beginner or already love to write, this workshop is an invitation to take your writing seriously, explore new possibilities, and discover the stories within you that are bursting to emerge onto the page.

Topics Covered:

Part 1: Key to Successful Plotting/Choosing a Point of View

Part 2: Creating Interesting Characters

Part 3: First paragraphs & the art of descriptive writing

Part 4: The Secrets of Believable Dialogue

Part 5: Keeping the reader reading/creating tension

Learning Outcomes:

By the end of this workshop you’ll:

• Have the tools and motivation to finish the writing projects you start
• Have an understanding of how to create memorable and complex characters
• Have learnt skills on how to write believable dialogue
• Know how to construct vivid scenes and settings
• Know how to structure plots that will have your readers on the edge of their seats.

We will cover the editing process and publishing and marketing options in another workshop. If you are already at the editing and seeking a publisher stage, please visit jacqx.com/events to register your interest via the contact form if you would like to know how to take the next step.

Jacqx Melilli is an accredited trainer and assessor and has a Master of Arts degree in Writing and Literature from Deakin University. She studied creative writing, editing, publishing, scriptwriting, media text for children, writing and film, marketing and research. Since founding her business in 2002, Jacqx has worked as a copywriter, editor and writing coach, and now enjoys assisting people to write their stories through her informative, hands-on, writing workshops.

Jacquelin has also worked in film, television and theatre and is the author of the Lights, Camera, Action series of educational books on filmmaking and theatre production and multiple award-winning one-act plays performed at Eisteddfods and Theatre Festivals.

Jacquelin has presented workshops at private schools in Brisbane, the Sunshine Coast, Gold Coast and Sydney, for G.A.T.EWAYS, an education organisation that provides enrichment programs for gifted children. She also presented creative writing workshops for the Gold Coast Writers' Association Festival Authors in Schools program, and Creative Writing for Young Geniuses school holiday program she initiated herself.

Jacqx Melilli holds a current Working With Children Check (WWCC).