School and Library Visits

School and Library Visits: Carol Gorman


During each year, Carol visits dozens of schools in Iowa and across the United States. She has spoken successfully to all age levels -- in schools, libraries, and at a variety of conferences.

    A Note from Carol About
    School and Library Visits

    I enjoy giving presentations about writing and publishing at schools, libraries, and conferences. Over the years, I've covered a wide range of topics.

    Most often, I'm asked to give a general presentation that answers the questions I'm asked most often: Where do you get your ideas? How many times do you revise? How did you get your start as a writer? This session, called Making a Living Telling Secrets and Lies, emphasizes how I use bits and pieces from my life, but change them to suit the stories I'm telling.

    Teachers and librarians often ask for writing workshops. In these sessions, limited to a maximum of 30 students, we focus on a key component of writing: the opening hook, voice, characterization, sensory detail, or metaphor/simile. The sessions begin with many examples, taken from the best of literature, that model these important elements. We discuss what choices the author made to create effective lines or scenes. Then students have the opportunity to use what they've learned to compose their own pieces of writing.

    The workshop's message is this: reading great books can teach us how to be good writers. If we look closely--if we read the way writers read--we can learn how effective writing is created.

    Carol

Large group presentations by the author are often combined with writing workshop sessions during a day's visit to a school. At times a partial day at a school is combined with an evening presentation for the community at the school or at a public library. Carol's presentations are also well-suited for writers and readers conferences.

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