The Creative Writing Club (CWC) is looking for writers to come together to work on an interconnected project with the end goal of publication.
On Nov. 4th, the CWC is running a workshop encouraging students to tap into their creativity and explore new worlds. The goal of the workshop? To create a shared fantasy world comprised of individual stories and unique characters all revolving around a common conflict.
“I’m most excited about the coming together of different voices, genres and writing styles,” said Cameron Sauder, co-president of the club and leader of the workshop.
The genre of the pieces can vary; short stories, flash fiction, poems and non-fiction documents written in the world are all acceptable. Most of the event will be spent working together to create the fictional world as well as brainstorming themes that reflect real-world topics in a fantasy setting.
“I’m envisioning a story of romance in one of the city’s apartments, and one of horror down in the city’s sewers,” said Sauder. “It is difficult to know how everything is going to come together, as the workshop itself will really guide us in our writing journey.”
The workshop is the preliminary stage in a wider writing project, there is no expectation for pieces to be completed before the end of the session.
After some quick writing exercises, Sauder will lead participants through a series of prompts and questions that will help build their world, such as “what kind of people will inhabit our world?” and “what kind of creatures exist within it?”
After the world is created, participants will have the month to work on their creations and by the end of November, the CWC’s goal is to have the bones of a mostly finished anthology that can be published.
“The hope is that after all the pieces are written, and we’ve come together for another session, they will be compiled into one grand anthology,” Sauder said. The proceeds of the sale of the anthology will go towards funding other CWC events.
This is not the first time the Creative Writing Club has created an anthology, but Sauder hopes that the workshop is successful enough that this type of project will continue to bring in inspired new writers and fund their club for years to come.
For more information about the workshop, check out the CWC Instagram account and the ExperienceBU page for this workshop.
