Join other writers for chats, write-ins, open mics, courses and Craft circles. Writing can get better with company.
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Write-ins
Get together for brief lessons, chats and writing time.
Courses
Virtual and face-to-face sessions on writing craft.
Craft circles
Workshop your work-in-progress (WIP) with other writers and an experienced substantive editor and facilitator.
Workshop topics
- Reading your work aloud. How to better prepare yourself to read your work in front of an audience.
- Your story events. Clarify the structural elements in your story to focus the narrative experience for readers.
- Write the details. Use your sense memory to create more vivid, engaging descriptive details.
- Create characters. Where do you start? How do you find them?
- Write dialogue. Tools for writing snappy dialogue.
- Keep yourself going. It is hard to keep motivated. Especially when the project feels like it’s going nowhere. Some skills and strategies to help you manage the beast that is your book-length project.
- Copy and compose. Looking at the power of sentence structure to write more thoughtful sentences.
- Sincere flattery. How to use a book of a favourite author to improve your writing ability at all levels. From structuring a story, developing character and keeping a reader engaged.