Auckland Writer's Festival

Auckland Writer’s Festival.

One word, AMAZING!! After a torturing long bus drive we arrived at the Writer’s Festival. Jumping up, up, up the stair’s we entered the writer’s workshop. Meeting the author David Hill was a blast. He taught us the three “T’s”, Topic’s, Trick’s and Target’s.

Topics: Topics can include something you would like to go back to. Like a performance, a place, a person, an animal or a special event you can write about that, focusing on a moment in time and adding lots of detail so the reader is really engaged in your writing.

Tricks: Tricks include all the things you can come with to make a great story, like an embarrassing story tends to make the audience perk up with curiosity to want to hear more… I’m sure everyone loves a good embarrassing story.

Targets: Targets are something you aim for, you have to plan ahead to fully understand where you story’s going to end up and give yourself a visual of how you’re going to write it.

What David Hill also taught us was that every story needs an interesting opening sentence. He said that the opening sentence should give a brief tell of what the story will be like and give the reader the desire to want to read more. 

Sarah, R1