An Imaginative Adventure Book series
And Creative Fiction Writing Course
Enter the world of bears imagination, in the Bearlagos, where bears cohabit peacefully together, but all is not as it seems!
Follow along the Bearventures journey of a special group of teds, each with distinctive personalities and traits, who are about to unravel more than they ‘beargained for’ and must face many hurdles, lessons, and challenges awaiting them on their ‘eye-wakening’ adventure.
We might just fuel our own imagination and adventure along our interactive journey too, here at the Bearventures ‘Bearcademy’.
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An Imaginative
Adventure Book series
Enter the world of bears imagination, in the Bearlagos, where bears cohabit peacefully together, but all is not as it seems!
Follow along the journey of a special group of bears, each with distinctive personalities and traits, who are about to unravel more than they ‘beargained for’ and must face many hurdles, lessons and challenges awaiting them on their ‘eye-wakening’ adventure.
We might just wake up our own imagination and adventure along our detective journey too, here at the Bearventures ‘Bearcademy’.
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Welcome to the Bearcademy
The Bearcademy is where it all started for Eski, Oinky and co, and for the readers of the Bearventures adventure book series the Bearcademy is also where your imaginative journey starts too.
Bearventures 'Short Read' Adventure Book Series
Bearventures is a ‘short read’ adventure book series that takes readers on an imaginative journey through the Bearlagos – the Bearworld of our characters. You can follow along reading, or ‘draw your own adventure’ as you imagine what happens next in between each episode and become part of the adventure yourself. See Bearventures episodes.
Creative Fiction 'Adventure' Writing Course
The Bearcademy uniquely combines with, and enhances, the Bearventures story. It takes you further beyond the books to fuel your imagination through activity zones, and through a creative writing course that helps budding young (or old) writers learn creative fiction writing skills, spark creativity, and learn how to market it.
Welcome to the Bearcademy
Bearventures Adventure Book Series & Writing Course
The Bearcademy is where it all started for Eski, Oinky and co, and for the readers of the Bearventures adventure book series, the Bearcademy is also where your imaginative journey starts too.
Bearventures 'Short Read' Adventure Book Series
Bearventures is a ‘short read’ adventure book series that takes readers on an imaginative journey through the Bearlagos – the Bearworld of our characters. You can follow along reading, or ‘draw your own adventure’ as you imagine what happens next in between each episode and become part of the adventure yourself. See Bearventures episodes.
Bearcademy Fiction Writing & Creativity Coaching
The Bearcademy uniquely combines with, and enhances, the Bearventures story. It takes you further beyond the books as a hub which allows you to fuel your imagination through activity zones, and through a creative writing course that helps you learn creative fiction writing skills, spark creativity, and learn how to market it.
Bearcademy Activity Zones
Look out for ‘activity zone’ marks within the stories, and for clues to use in special episode interactions. Each bear has distinct skills and personality, and activity zones are based around their traits. Yet your own imagination and unlocked backstory knowledge can help the bears along in the special detective episodes.
Popcorn Experiments
Join Oinky and come up with many popcorn spells, so when eating a popcorn something unique happens briefly.
Pensa Inventsa
Join Pensa in the invention lab. The Bearlagos is full of Pensa’s inventions. Can you help create even better ones?
Craft A Joe King
Joe King. King of jokes, or so he thinks. Surely you can come up with some better ‘good bad’ jokes than Joe King?!
Bubs Blendwords
Bubs talks a lot! So much she has come up with many new blended words. What new words can you come up with?
(more activity zones to come)
Learning To Write A Great Fiction Story
The Bearcademy is the place in the Bearventures story where the bears learnt to craft their skills as ‘Bearventurers’ and gets them ready for their adventure to explore the Bearlagos for their missing friend, and here at the Bearcademy.com is where we can learn adventure ‘bear-style’, which is all about using imagination and creativity as they solve problems along the way. Each story is crafted in short-story, bite-size parts so it has room to diverge and grow as episodes evolve.
The Bearventures book series is an example of short-story episodes that get you thinking imaginatively and problem-solving (via an imaginative world), and we take these lessons into the fiction writing (and storytelling) course. No matter what your age, we can all benefit from creative thinking in life, to keep our mind sharp or to make life more interesting. Through the course we can help foster your creativity for life or work, and show you how to market your creative work!
Here’s an external resource from a pro in the game to help get you started with your writing:
WHAT OUR READERS SAYS
Find out what more of our readers thought of the Bearventures journeys in our reviews section.
BEARVENTURES BACKGROUND STORY
Bearventures came about, like most stories do, in a non-linear way – via a playful discussion from its two writers, who saw a connection between a teddy bear, child, and parent in a park one day and which fed an idea to explore this interaction and adventure of what a bear may see further.
The story itself was still a blank canvas and which grew from the idea of 3 black dots that helped identify one particular small teddy bear one of the writers had, amongst a bunch of similar looking marshmallows.
Oh how 3 simple dots could turn into a character that provoked emotion when those 3 dots vanished!
What followed was an exploration of imagination, where one simple visual could spark a whole journey and story and which fed one idea to the next. The focus became on making a journey that could also be imaginative and interactive for the readers to find a connection with.
Another aim was to illustrate how anyone can escape the daily grind of life by putting pen to paper and just let thoughts flow. The therapeutic value is immense, and regardless of your writing ability the creative output can help make your day better.
The idea of using minimal graphics (other than the bears and map look) and a general story outline (within the Bearlagos – the Bearworld), was purposefully done to help trigger the readers imagination of their own idea of what the Bearlagos world could look and feel like if they were in the eyes of the bear characters themselves.
Releasing in bite-sized episodes helps to spur and encourage readers imaginations to create their own versions of ‘what happens next‘ in-between the release of the next episode, so readers get to fill in the blanks and let their imagination wander, so-to-speak (and also apply that method in the connected writing course).
R.S.Wills
Bearventures author