Creative writing allows each participant to develop expression skills. The workshops combine work of art and writing in order to offer a way of expression that challenges classical teaching methods.

In creative writing sessions, we practise and summarize various approaches on how to build a text (write and re-write) and we explore why we do it. We focus on projects including personal writing as well as group productions.

The method acknoledges many levels and entries, nevertheless, beginning of sentences and litterature are often privileged.

Our cultural background, knowledge and experience provide us with rich material which includes our understanding of feelings (fears, joys, hopes), bodily perceptions, past experiences (imagined and real), as well as our surroundings and others.

Pictures, texts, sounds, beginning of sentences, documents are called medium.

Material and medium combined garanty the success of creative writings.

All is needed is a pre-conceived timetable that suits the class that is being taught.

Let’s zoom in on the picture above

What can you see? A wolf, trees and a shadow.

What can’t you see? A little bird, a hunter, the clouds, what’s in the basket.

Let’s call them: characters.

Pick a character, make him/her/it describes what it sees, smells, thinks, expects, will do…

The wolf standing in a shadow: “I can’t see anything, my hands cover my face. I can smell the moist of the forest. I wish the noises would go away. I’m going to run away from here.”

The little bird hidden in the tree: “What a nice little wolf. Why is it so scared? Is it playing and making fool of me just to get me closer and bite me as soon as I dare make a move? I’m staying there wolfy and will not blink a feather…”

Stories could go on and on. Different versions can be invented. Changing the point of view and creating or reading longer texts are only some of the options we could explore when developping the eZoomBook strategy.