Reading Week at TMS

On Monday, April 8th Mike visited with over 100 eight graders at the Tiverton Middle School in Tiverton, RI to kick off Reading Week.  Mike taught the students the finer points of creating a story, making interesting characters, challenging settings, the importance of an outline and plot points and of course editing, preaching his Four-Pass Editing process.

After the lecture on story creation, he led the kids in a raucous Monster Creation session where the students listed physical descriptions of the protagonist and antagonist.  After determining what they wanted their characters to took look like, some very talented young artists took the physical descriptions and brought the characters to life.

In all, a great day for everyone!