Hello, my dear mentors and mentees!  I hope the course is going fine for you all, and that you're learning and enjoying yourself. Hopefully making friends, too! (:

First things first

We have interviewed some great deviants for you: in tWR Interviews: Characters, Imagery and Metaphors, we interviewed BeccaJS, SilverInkblot and LionesseRampant for poetry, andLiliWrites, illuminara, julietcaesar, SadisticIceCream, neurotype-on-discord and LadyLincoln for prose.  please check it out! And maybe give it a favbecause it deserves the exposure. 

Poetry Course - Lesson 4

This fourth lesson focuses on imagery and metaphors.

The Resources/Articles

Effective Imagery in Poetry
Conveying emotions
Cliches
Specific Imagery
Imagery in Poetry (the comment section is quite an interesting read)

As before, a warning: Some of these articles may repeat each other, some may give different kinds of advice for the same topic - you can read them all, your mentor can read them and then explain to you, you can choose a few or just one to read; it's really all up to you. We're giving you the tools, but you shape your own course together.

The Activities

 The mentees write a poem with, for example, at least one use of metaphors and two of imagery, with the challenge of incorporating imagery into metaphors. (this, of course, is something your mentor will explain to you - or that you can practice together if it's not something immediate for the mentor either!)

 The mentees analyse the poems in their mentor's gallery to find metaphors and imagery, differentiate, find cliches and work out possible edits to get rid of them. 

The mentor picks a subject, and their mentee has to write first a poem without imagery or metaphors about it, one with both, one with each; discussing them and exploring their differences when it comes to impact and strength would be very beneficial.

So what do you want to see from us before the lesson is over?

From the activities above, if you do happen to write a piece resulting from the second exercise, please note us  a link to it so we can include it in our Mentorship Project folder.

Do you need someplace to meet up and talk? A great idea is exchanging skype details, or meet up in theWrittenRevolution's chatroom, it's at your disposal. (:

Prose Course - Lesson 4

This fourth lesson focuses on character building.

The Resources/Articles

A TON OF RESOURCES OMG - that your mentor can and should help you go through

A Character Questionnaire
Character Quirks
Character Creation, 7 Tips
Character Motivation
Writing Tips: Characterization
Character Questionnaire
Exercise: Your Character's Distinct Voice
Nobody Loves my Character!
Creating a Character's own Voice
Advanced Character Creation
Is your Character TOO Special?
The Dual-Natured Character
Paper Villains
A Way to Flesh Out Your Character

And about voices, for and about kids simplyprose.deviantart.com/art…

As always, a warning: Some of these articles may repeat each other, some may give different kinds of advice for the same topic - you can read them all, your mentor can read them and then explain to you, you can choose a few or just one to read; it's really all up to you. We're giving you the tools, but you shape your own course together.

The Activities

 Mentor and mentee write down a list of character aspects/traits. Then using a random number generator, they pick five of them. Mentee writes a story where the main character follows the traits the generator picked.

 Mentors choose a random poem. Mentees expand on the poem's protagonist and write a backstory for them based on what the poem suggests. Whether you use/follow a character sheet is up to you!

 Mentees choose a character of an existing book/story, then change them to fit inside a totally different story. For example, you pick Charlie Bucket from Dahl's "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and put him in a horror story set in London.

So what do you want to see from us before the lesson is over?

From the activities above, if you do happen to write a piece resulting from the first exercise, please note us  a link to it so we can include it in our Mentorship Project folder.

Do you need someplace to meet up and talk? A great idea is exchanging skype details, or meet up in theWrittenRevolution's chatroom, it's at your disposal. (:

So, what do we do now?

Now you start working on your lesson! 

Poetry and Prose fellows alike, your next lesson will be posted on March 26th!

If you need anything...

Please note the group and let us know any concern you have, or clarification/advice that is needed.  we're here to help! Just a note away.