The students in the Young Writers Program at Wyalktachem District High School have been participating in Nanowrimo, or National Novel Writing Month.
The group meets during lunchtimes each week to engage in creative writing activities as well as participate in writing excursions and camps throughout the year.
During November writers all around the world set word goal challenges for themselves, and work diligently towards meeting these goals.
Students from Years 2-10 have set word goals and during lunchtime and after school sessions have been writing their novels.
Teacher Emma Grant said that the students have loved the experience of setting lengthy word goals and being ‘real’ writers as they write using the Nanowrimo online writing app.
“Students have learnt so much from the experience, and have written far more than they usually do,” Miss Grant said.
“Their skills are really developing and they’re engaging with writing in a way which is fun and a little competitive, as they race each other to complete their novel.”
Student Stefan Lebamova said it is fun to participate in Nanowrimo.
“My story is about this huge orb thing, this guy tries to steal,” he said.
Ten-year-old Maddison Bloomfield said her novel is a true story about her family.
“Nanowrimo is pretty good for young children that want to be a writer than they’re older,” she said.
Janea Farrell, 11, said her story involves a big cat chasing the main characters trying to kill them.
