School Visits & Seminars

Randy is available for school visits and loves talking to middle-grade and highschool students about how to be an effective storyteller in books and media. See if one of the presentations or workshops below fill your student's needs. Don't see a topic that you feel is important to young storytellers? Drop Randy an e-mail and see if he can't develop new material for the list of already exciting presentations. 


Presentations
  • What's Your Story?: What better way to start a writing/storytelling career than with a fictional story about - You! Randy will discuss ways to generate story ideas and focus primarily on using elements from the participants' lives to create a fictional story that will really resonate with the youth creating them.
  • This Is How It Starts: Randy will discuss how to start a story and then work with the participants on developing their story ideas.
  • Pick Me, Pick Me: Stories are filled with interesting characters and most have quite a few who help and hinder the hero. Randy will discuss the concept of team-building to develop a story. He will help participants decide who needs to be in their story and why.
  • What I Want! What I Really, Really Want!: Goals are an important part of any good story. There are story goals, there are chapter goals, and there are even secondary goals. Randy will work with the participants to identify and develop the goals in their stories.
  • Why, Why, Why Did The Bad Guys Do that?: Good stories have bad people. Really bad people. Randy will discuss the importance of antagonists (villains) in a story and work with the participants to develop the bad people in their fictional lives.

What Does It Cost?

This is intended as a guideline, Randy's fees are negotiable and depend on the distance, location, and circumstances associated with the visit.

  • Full day (four sessions of 45 minutes-to-1 hour):
    Phoenix Area, Arizona / $400
    Elsewhere in Arizona / $600 + travel expenses
    Outside Arizona / $800 + travel expenses
  • Half day (two sessions of 45 minutes-to-1 hour):
    Phoenix Area, Arizona / $250
    Elsewhere in Arizona / $350 + travel expenses
    Outside Arizona / $600 + travel expenses
  • One presentation (one session of 45 minutes-to-1 hour):
    Phoenix Area, Arizona / $200
    Elsewhere in Arizona / $300 + travel expenses
    Outside Arizona / $500 + travel expenses

 

Funding Links to Grants.

If you are interested in hosting an author visit but need funds, look into these grants for educators. They may help.

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