At the Garforth Arts Festival last month professional dramatist Joe Standerline led a creative writing workshop from an unusual venue - the Garforth Library promotional trailer:
Young people had a short amount of time to plan key elements of plot & characters before delivering their stories to Joe in the space of one minute!
The results were fantastic given the circumstances, and both Joe and staff from Garforth Library were staggered at the imagination shown by the young people.
Samuel, an 11 year old, even managed to write down his short story, which he has titled "Non-Ordinary":
"Non-Ordinary"
Samuel is an ordinary kid in an ordinary town. Life is great in Brakenberry but all is not as it seems...
"Hello, I'm Dick Danes and astonishingly all adults have fallen asleep".
Samuel knows he can stop this by getting all the kids in the world to slap the adults. On his way he stumbles into a warehouse and meets Dick Danes (evil reporter). Dick throws Samuel into a big vat of blood.
Whilst Samuel struggles to get out the kids have been slapping the adults in a period of 2 days. "5, 4, 3, yes we've done it". Samuel goes to Dick's water base and throws him into the sea. He finds a girl locked up so he rescues her and she kisses him.
The End
