[image error] Today I had the pleasure of attending the St Ignatius school in Toowong (a leafy suburb of my home town Brisbane) to be part of their quite remarkable literary conference.

I say remarkable, in that it was just like a real world conference with a keynote speaker and breakout sessions, but with all the boring bits taken out.

In one of the breakouts, I ran a workshop where the kids and I challenged ourselves to construct a working story plan in 30 minutes. We did it. And, frankly, I reckon they c...