Writing & Storytelling Foundations
A story is just a series of choices, told in order.
About This Course
What You'll Create
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A completed short comic, planned and drawn across the term. -
Finished pages selected for the end of term exhibition. -
A brief statement on the story and the choices made in telling it.
Course Details
- Age Range
- All Ages
- Term
- Term 1
- Schedule
- Fridays, 4:30pm
- Duration
- 10 weeks
- Price
- $480
- Spots Available
- 8 of 8
What You'll Learn
- • You'll decide what a reader sees, and when, panel by panel.
- • You'll control how a story feels to read, through pacing.
- • You'll build a character readers actually care about.
- • You'll learn the basics of lettering and layout on a page.
- • You'll learn that finishing something imperfect teaches you more than restarting something perfect.
The Support You'll Get
You won't be handed the answer. You'll be shown how to find it.
Your practitioner has spent years making their own work, and their own mistakes. In the studio they work alongside you: asking the right questions, pointing out options you hadn't seen, helping you push through the moment you get stuck. The ideas stay yours. The decisions stay yours. They're there so you're never finding the way through alone.
Week by Week
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Every course ends with an exhibition
Celebrate what you created with the people and our community. Every term concludes with a presentation or exhibition of your work: a chance to share your process, your ideas, and what you've made.
Your Instructor
Charlotte Lance
Author & Illustrator
Charlotte has illustrated and written children's books published by Penguin, Pan Macmillan, Allen & Unwin and Scholastic. Her work includes A Really Super Hero, This Girl, That Girl, and Moth in a Fancy Cardigan. She builds worlds that hold stories within stories, working across traditional and digital media. She teaches the way she works: look closely, draw what's actually there, then make it yours.