Elements of Literature spinner (reuse old project) 483
As the saying goes, when life gives you lemons, make lemonade, and when the Elements of Literature Spinner gives you four random elements of literature, mix them all together in a new unique story. Today we’ll be revisiting the Elements of Literature Spinner to inject some randomness into our lemonade— I mean, stories. For x points, write x words incorporating your fresh picked elemonts into a delicious new blend. Get squeezing here: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1047415761 !

cabin wars 2 373
Do you hear the excited cries for words and betrayal? Have you checked up on your cabin’s mango stockpiles? That’s right, the time has come again for cabin wars, our most beloved day of chaos! Remember to take care of yourself—take breaks to drink water, sleep, and go outside, and always prioritize real life over SWC <3 Pencils (and keyboards) ready? Let the wars begin!

Living space object 452
Looking up at the night sky, don’t you just wonder what else is out there? Aren’t you certain we can’t be alone in the universe? But imagine life beyond our planet isn’t the little green aliens so often featuring in our sci-fis, but the lights that twinkle above our heads themselves. Today, put yourself in the shoes of an alive celestial body—a moon, star, planet, asteroid, etc, who lives and thinks—and write x words about their life for x points.

roleplay daily:
“Huh. Roleplaying, what's that? Campers entering the rooming, screaming and causing chaos, chanting the word ‘roleplay’ over and over again. But for some reason their saying it in third person…? ”What's happening?“ you ask around, scanning the room for someone who would know an answer, but everyone continued to chant. A couple minutes later, the chant changes to ”third person“. Hm. I guess we must be talking in third person today then.”

bestselling bookstore:
“A new bookstore opens across your street, you read the sign stretched across it's doors: ”SWC Bestselling Bookstore.“ Welcome to a classic daily, the bestselling bookstore! Grab a story concept your writing or one you have an idea for and post a blurb about it on the main cabin comments, and it should be at least x words long. Now, scroll through all the other amazing story concepts and choose one, make sure to claim it! Write a story using the blurb with at least x words for x points, and send it to the original author once finished!”

come up with an ad for a preexisting product, but you can't use the product's name anywhere in your writing!! when you're done, share in the main cabin and see if anyone can guess what you were writing an ad for:
“The gooey marshmallow melts, slowly disappearing on the tip of your tongue as your teeth crunch on something else at the back of your mouth. ”It's Cocacola!“ someone yells from the crowd. You holler back, ”No! It's Lucky Charms!“ Welcome to another awesome daily — today you'll be writing about a preexisting product, but your not allowed to use the name of the product anywhere in your writing! It can be any product from food to shoes, but make sure its x words to gain x points and when your done, share it in the main cabin and see if anyone can guess what you were writing about.”

• Written 200 words regarding a topic
  

• Written 150 words to split up your weekly into 4 parts
  

• Written 350 words for a workshop for your weekly
  

• Written 200 words for each part of someone else's weekly, totaling up to 800 words
  

All weeklies start out as simple topics that they will be based on! To start off this weekly, choose a topic that interests you- it can be about anything, from a weekly about plot twists to non-fiction. Write 200 words describing your idea to complete the first part of this weekly!

Weekly #1 - Part 4:

Throughout this weekly, we've taken a closer look at what motivates our characters to take on what they do, as well as how they develop and change as their story progresses, responding to the world around them. So, what's next? We're glad you asked—now that you've created your (im)perfect (;D) character, it's time to tie it all together and place them in a tale of your very own. For the final part of this weekly, write a short story in a minimum of 450 words incorporating your flawed character, focusing on character development and their motives as we've explored throughout the past week. Best of luck!

how to write a workshop 101: a draft

introduction

welcome, writers! today we’ll be going over something that you regularly see in your weeklies every session, and sometimes even in your bi-dailies. they're the–you guessed it–the well known workshops!
so, how do these workshops work? how do we, the daily team, write them? how do we make sure that their intent and purpose get across to our target audience?

getting into it

the format

one very important thing about workshops is their formats! there are several types of workshops, from project workshops, bullet point/sectioned workshops and paragraph workshops. take a moment to go through all these examples and see what you think looks best! here are some pros and cons to help you decide:

project workshops:

- a great break from the usual scratch white background and long paragraphs of text
- helps the reader understand more with visual graphics and gives you a wider range of options of formatting to choose from
- time consuming and require a lot of effort for graphics, text, and uploading to scratch to maintain quality

bullet point/sectioned workshops:

- these help you to break the information down and make sure it’s not too overwhelming for the reader
- can vary from everything in bullet points, or just all the information broken down into different sections and explained from there. i personally prefer the latter, and some of the sections can also be explained in bullet points!

paragraph workshops:

- can help the reader go over the information without any breaks stopping the momentum/flow
- can get hard to understand with overflow of information, may seem overwhelming, and hard to break down into points to remember and understand

the title

next, choose a topic for your workshop. then, select a title! it can be anything, from something humourous and witty to something that simply captures your workshop in a few words. make sure it gives the reader a brief understanding of what your workshop is about.
examples are (xxxxx) and (xxxxx) in relation to the topic of (xxxxx)

the start

once you’ve decided your format, well, every workshop needs a start to it! in this, you talk about what your intent is, and give a broad description of how you imagine to do it. this is, in short, the introduction. this helps your target audience to get a brief understanding of what the workshop is about and how they’re going to learn the information given!

for example in this workshop written by xxx, the introduction goes:

(xxx)
(explanation and link)

point one - your first point in your workshop

using your format above, you have now come to your first point in your workshop. there are four main things that you want to do. i hate to bring the dreaded english format, but these are really what i think works best:

- point: clearly explain and state the point that you want to explain. what is it? why are you bringing it up? why do you think it stands?

- evidence: state a clear-cut example to back your point. every point stands better if you have evidence to support it!

- analysis: next, analyse your point and explain it. how does the evidence back your point? how does it show that your point stands? does it clearly show everything? is there anything it lacks? anything that it majorly highlights on?

- link: finally, link it back to the main point, the reason you’re writing the workshop itself, not just your point one. for example, say i was talking about ‘how to use literary devices’, and my first point was …….. (continue)

once you state all your points one by one, and give a good explanation, you’re almost there! hooray yay

the last part

finally, to wrap things up and tie them off with a ribbon, you need to write your conclusion! this should be a short summary of your workshop, restating the point made at the beginning of your introduction. you should sum up what you’ve explained in the workshop and how it comes to terms with the thesis statement.

for example: xxxx

conclusion

finally, swcers, we come to an end with this workshop! i hope you learnt how to write a workshop with all the points xxxxx have fun xxxxx

here are some examples of workshops:

xxxxxx by xxxxxx

xxxxxx by xxxxxx

xxxxxx by xxxxxx

hope you had fun, now go back to the weekly and see your task

how to write a workshop 101

introduction

welcome, writers! today we’ll be going over something that you regularly see in your weeklies every session, and sometimes even in your bi-dailies. they're the–you guessed it–the well known workshops!
so, how do these workshops work? how do we, the daily team, write them? how do we make sure that their intent and purpose get across to our target audience?

getting into it

the format

one very important thing about workshops is their formats! there are several types of workshops, from project workshops, bullet point/sectioned workshops and paragraph workshops. take a moment to go through all these examples and see what you think looks best! here are some pros and cons to help you decide:

project workshops:

- a great break from the usual scratch white background and long paragraphs of text
- helps the reader understand more with visual graphics and gives you a wider range of options of formatting to choose from
- time consuming and require a lot of effort for graphics, text, and uploading to scratch to maintain quality
- a great example of this is this great project workshop by fae on metafiction!

bullet point/sectioned workshops:

- these help you to break the information down and make sure it’s not too overwhelming for the reader
- can vary from everything in bullet points, or just all the information broken down into different sections and explained from there. i personally prefer the latter, and some of the sections can also be explained in bullet points!
- some examples of these are this wonderful workshop on
switching perspectives by Inky, and this workshop on pacing by yours truly!

paragraph workshops:

- can help the reader go over the information without any breaks stopping the momentum/flow
- can get hard to understand with overflow of information, may seem overwhelming, and hard to break down into points to remember and understand
- an example of this is the wonderfully-executed workshop on using dialogue effectively by eevee!

the title

next, choose a topic for your workshop. then, select a title! it can be anything, from something humourous and witty to something that simply captures your workshop in a few words. make sure it gives the reader a brief understanding of what your workshop is about.
for example, say your topic was to talk about how to pace your story and set forward tension, your title could be a simple ‘Pacing and Tension’. there's nothing wrong with putting straightforward titles- in fact, they're very useful in setting a clear idea to your audience!
you could also differ and go with something more unique and rememberable. this could help lighten the mood and showcase your topic with, well, a touch of humour. an example is ‘Pacing: The Tension-full Workshop To Make Sure Your Story Doesn’t Run!'

the start

once you’ve decided your format, well, every workshop needs a start to it! in this, you talk about what your intent is, and give a broad description of how you imagine to do it. this is, in short, the introduction. this helps your target audience to get a brief understanding of what the workshop is about and how they’re going to learn the information given!

for example in this workshop written by the wonderful Sandy, the introduction goes:

Introduction

Hi there! Welcome to the workshop on dual timelines, in which I’ll go over the concept of dual timelines and the ways you can create them. If you would like more general information on plotting timelines, feel free to reference my previous workshop, but this should be all you need for the weekly activity!

Let’s jump right into it!

In this, Sandy describes their intent–to talk about dual timelines. they give a broad description of how they will manage to do it, which is by going over and talking about the concept of dual timelines and the different ways in which you can make them! the full workshop can be referenced here.

point one - your first point in your workshop

using your format above, you have now come to your first point in your workshop. there are four main things that you want to do. i hate to bring the dreaded english format, but these are really what i think works best:

- point: clearly explain and state the point that you want to explain. what is it? why are you bringing it up? why do you think it stands?

- evidence: state a clear-cut example to back your point. every point stands better if you have evidence to support it!

- analysis: next, analyse your point and explain it. how does the evidence back your point? how does it show that your point stands? does it clearly show everything? is there anything it lacks? anything that it majorly highlights on?

- link: finally, link it back to the main point, the reason you’re writing the workshop itself, not just your point one. for example, say i was talking about ‘how the literary device of imagery can be used’, and my main point (or my thesis statement) was regarding how they help to give your audience a more vivid understanding and envision the sentences. my first point could be gustatory imagery, and i'd describe everything, and in the end, link it back to the thesis statement by saying how useful it is to paint a picture in the audiences minds!

once you state all your points one by one, and give a good explanation, you’re almost there!

the last part

finally, to wrap things up and tie them off with a ribbon, you need to write your conclusion! this should be a short summary of your workshop, restating the point made at the beginning of your introduction. you should sum up what you’ve explained in the workshop and how it comes to terms with the thesis statement.

for example, in this incredible workshop by Finley on red herrings, the conclusion goes:

so there you have it! i hope that this workshop improved your understanding upon red herrings and clues, and how you can effectively utilise them while writing. always keep your readers on the edge, captivated by the mysteries that lie ahead!

In this, Finley gives a short statement of what should have been taken from the workshop and a brief summary of the content. the full workshop can be accessed here.

conclusion

finally, swcers, we come to an end with this workshop! i hope you learnt how to write a workshop with a good title, introduction, explain your points, and set a satisfying conclusion. remember to read over your workshop to double check if everything makes sense, and try to give examples!

here are some examples of workshops to refer to, if needed!

https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/post/8429882/ by Kiara

https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/post/8441865/ by me, Lora

https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/post/8237525/ by Gigi

that's it! hope you had as much fun as i did! good luck writers, i can't wait to see what you come up with. you got this!