#wgr2018

Words Go Round 2018 ends with a cosy storytelling session as children and parents join Jeremy from The Storytelling Centre on an adventure making stone soup! • This storytelling is in conjuction with the Superhero We Festival and #BuySingLit Festival. • #wordsgoround #wgr2018 #sgwritersfest (at Enabling Village)

Kids busy making their vegetable prints after “making the stone soup” with Jeremy from The Storytelling Centre! • This storytelling and craft session is in conjuction with the Superhero We Festival and #BuySingLit Festival. • #wordsgoround #wgr2018 #sgwritersfest (at Enabling Village)

“Q: What inspired you to be a dinosaur? A: Jurassic Park” - Oliver Phommavanh on how he wanted to be a dinosaur when he grew up • “When writing stories, it is all about having problems. My one tip to writing stories is to read, read, read. The more books you read, the more ideas you can borrow.” • “All my stories here are about me. My number two tip, write about your family or about your friends. You have to write about what you love. To do that, you have to be observant.” • Oliver Phommavanh had the students and teachers of United World College SEA East, School of Science and Technology and Dulwich College in stitches with his antics, jokes and puns - amidst of course, writing tips. 🙃 • #wordsgoround #wgr2018 #sgwritersfest

“I wanted to explore what would happen if a character traded his humanity for the 5Cs.” - Felix Cheong • “In the best fiction, characters want something they cant have.” - Yeo Wei Wei • Felix Cheong and Yeo Wei Wei wrapping up their Here and Beyond talks to a sea of students at Temasek Junior College • #wordsgoround #wgr2018 #sgwritersfest (at Temasek Junior College)

“We often think of prejudice as happening somewhere else - it happens in fiction, in stories, in other countries, or in the past. But that’s not true. It might not be happening with the same intensity, but it’s still happening. Why not strive for it to not happen at all? That’s easier said than done. It requires us to call out prejudice when we see it. What sort of prejudices do we have that sometimes go unchecked?” - @ballijaswal at East Spring Secondary • #wordsgoround #wgr2018 #sgwritersfest (at East Spring Secondary School)

“We often think of prejudice as happening somewhere else - it happens in fiction, in stories, in other countries, or in the past. But that’s not true. It might not be happening with the same intensity, but it’s still happening. Why not strive for it to not happen at all? That’s easier said than done. It requires us to call out prejudice when we see it. What sort of prejudices do we have that sometimes go unchecked?” - @ballijaswal at East Spring Secondary • #wordsgoround #wgr2018 #sgwritersfest #authorvisit (at East Spring Secondary School)

"Your best idea could be the 400th idea. But to come to that, you would have to write 399 other ideas. Being a good writer is much like being an athlete. You’ve got to train to be good.” - @oliverwinfree suggests to teachers to encourage their students to keep a notebook with them and jot down every time an idea comes to them. • Oliver also shared a simple and useful technique to get kids to give personality to their characters - start with drawing 4 empty circles and get them to turn these circles into emojis. Through their drawings, the kids also get to reflect on character archetypes. • #wordsgoround #wgr2018 #sgwritersfest #authorvisit (at National Library Singapore)

“To call them a dialect is to demote their status... Because that means that they’re not official languages, they’re just languages spoken at home, spoken colloquially. I prefer to refer to them as ancestral languages.” - Yeo Wei Wei on language and identity at Cedar Girls’ Secondary • #wordsgoround #wgr2018 #sgwritersfest (at Cedar Girls' Secondary School)