Write the Story Only You Can Tell with Wendy Orr (NEW DATE and VENUE!)

Drift Festival

Learn award-winning author Wendy Orr’s techniques to spark ideas and burst through writers' block! Get words on the page!

Point Nepean National Park - Badcoe Hall

Stories can’t be written until we free ourselves of the fear of writing them. Whatever the genre, eg fiction or memoir, children’s novel, mystery or romance, we need to find the confidence to start and the knowledge to continue. 

Warm up exercises will allow participants to relax and enjoy their creativity. We will use a treasure box of objects to spark ideas and techniques to help participants realise what stories they already hold, as well as whole-brain techniques to create well rounded characters and their stories. 

With creativity flowing, participants will then look at how to use these ideas. They will gain the basics of story structure and explore how their interpretation of characters, setting and tone work together to create the story that only they can write. 
Wendy Orr is a multi-award winning, best-selling author of over 40 books for children, teenagers and adults. Her books have been published in 28 languages and have won many awards including the CBCA Book of the Year, American Library Association Best of the Best, and the Prime Minister’s Award for Children’s Literature. In 2008 Nim’s Island became a Hollywood feature film starring Jodie Foster, Abigail Breslin and Gerard Butler; in 2013 Nim at Sea became Return to Nim’s Island, an Australian feature film starring Bindi Irwin. Wendy has presented on school and festival stages around the world and believes that everyone has the ability to find the stories that they want to create. Her next book will be Honey and the Valley of Horses, to be published by Allen &amp; Unwin in August 2023.

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