Creative Writing: Ages 11–14
Real storytelling craft for the middle years.
About this course
This course focuses on developing stronger storytelling skills. Students learn plot structure, character development, dialogue and descriptive language, while experimenting with different writing styles and genres to find what suits them.
What is included
- Plot structure that actually holds up
- Characters readers care about
- Writing believable dialogue
- Try multiple genres and styles
Who this course is for
Ages 11–14 who can already write a story and want it to be good. The stage where enthusiasm needs technique to keep improving.
What you will be able to do
- Structure a plot that holds together under pressure
- Write characters with wants and contradictions
- Write dialogue that sounds like speech and carries information
- Work in more than one genre by choice
How the course is structured
Session 1: Structure
Why stories sag in the middle, and what to do about it.
Session 2: Character
Want, obstacle and flaw. Building someone worth reading about.
Session 3: Dialogue
Writing speech that is not just information delivery.
Session 4: Genre
The same scene written three ways to feel how convention shapes writing.
Session 5: Your story
A complete piece with individual feedback.
Frequently asked questions
Yes. What they write about is theirs; how well it is built is what we teach.
Yes for creative and descriptive writing tasks, which is where most marks are available and least often taught explicitly.
Both: spoken in session, and written on the final piece.
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How it runs
Live online · small group: taught live, never pre-recorded, with sessions recorded afterwards so students can revisit anything they missed. Timings are arranged around school and time zones, and we reschedule when exams or travel get in the way.
Learning Bubble teaches online to students across Pakistan, Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad, as well as the Gulf, the UK and North America. You will need a laptop or tablet with a working camera and a reasonably stable connection. If a course requires any materials at home, we send the list before the first session.