Teachers' Edition: So You Want To Write?
Teach your students strategies to stay inspired and motivated in their creative writing practice
This workshop is designed for teachers to assist students who wish to write seriously, but may be having difficulties in beginning or maintaining a focused creative writing practice.
‘So You Want To Write’ is a workshop designed to aid teachers to instil confidence in students and give them a renewed understanding of what is required to begin, continue or complete a writing project. Teachers will come away with strategies to help students manage tendencies towards procrastination and self-doubt, and classroom activities to assist and encourage creativity.
Through a series of dynamic writing exercises and key insights into the creative practice, teachers will be able to assist students develop techniques to increase motivation, discipline, and foster a healthy and productive relationship with their writing.
Teachers may use all or some of the included audio, video, suggested exercises and classroom discussion points to complement or shape their lesson plans.
Scroll down to see the full course curriculum and a list of frequently asked questions.
"Amazing...a godsend for all the teachers who are teaching Literature for the first time."
KYD School Members are eligible for a 10% discount on this workshop. For more information contact [email protected].
Your Instructor
Hannah Kent is the co-founder and publishing director of Kill Your Darlings. Her debut novel, Burial Rites (2013), has been translated into thirty languages and was shortlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Stella Prize, the Guardian First Book Award, and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. It won the ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year and the Indie Awards Debut Fiction Book of the Year, amongst others. Hannah’s second novel, The Good People (2016) was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, the Queensland Literary Awards and the Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction. It is being adapted for film by Aquarius Productions.
Rebecca Starford is the co-founder and publishing director of Kill Your Darlings. Her debut memoir, Bad Behaviour (Allen & Unwin), was published in 2015 and is currently in development with Matchbox Pictures. Her novel The Imitator was published in 2021. Rebecca is a former editor at Text Publishing, and has worked for Affirm Press and Australian Book Review. Her writing has appeared in the Guardian, Age, and Weekend Australian. She is a PhD candidate at the University of Queensland.
Course Curriculum
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StartIntroduction (0:17)
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StartStudent Exercise: What Prevents You From Writing?
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StartHannah and Rebecca: Why We Write and What Stops Us From Writing
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StartThe Things That Stop Us From Writing
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StartHannah and Rebecca: Difficulties and Inhibitors
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StartPersonal and Practical Inhibitors
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StartHannah and Rebecca: Personal or Practical Inhibitors
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StartStudent Exercise: How to Manage Personal and Practical Inhibitors
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StartPersonal Inhibitors
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StartYou Are Not Alone
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StartHannah and Rebecca: Managing Personal Inhibitors
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StartEight Suggestions for a Healthy Relationship to Writing
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StartIntroduction (0:36)
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StartStudent Exercise: The Best Thing You've Ever Written
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StartStudent Exercise: The Worst Thing You've Ever Written
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StartWhen Are You Most Inclined to Write Well?
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StartHannah and Rebecca: On Deadlines
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StartStudent Exercise: Harnessing the Unconscious
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StartEncouraging Creativity
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StartStudent Exercise: Three Objects
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StartHannah and Rebecca: How Do You Encourage Your Creativity?
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StartThe Importance of Reading
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StartThe Importance of Daydreaming
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StartCreativity Triggers
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StartThe Dark Force of Procrastination
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StartWays to Counter Procrastination
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StartWhen Your Writing is Growing Stale