Residential Course
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF PLACE IN WRITING LONG AND SHORT FICTION WHITWORTH HALL WORKSHOP WEEKEND Sat 7th and Sun 8th November2009 |
Our aim for this weekend is that you should go away rested, inspired, very informed, full of ideas for your ongoing writing, armed with substantial plans, pages of significant writing and ambitions for the future.
SATURDAY
9-9.45 am: Gather for coffee and informal introductions. Set up identity board with images, plans, work-samples and aspirations. Signing up for individual consultations.
AM: 1) The Significance of Place
The function of landscape in relation to context, mood , atmosphere and character in long and short fiction. The significance of small things. The application of these ideas to your own writing project. You also write.
MORNING COFFEE
2) Visit Whitworth Walled Garden with your notebook. - Exercise in close observation.
Individual Consultations
Working buffet lunch. - Transformation of garden observation to brief draft of poem or prose. You also write.
PM: 1) Figures in a Landscape – Generating and developing characters to inhabit your work of fiction.. Who do you see? What do they say? Characterisation as the engine for the plot. You also write.
2) Work sharing in small groups.
AFTERNOON TEA
3) Draft a two page story or story outline emerging from today’s experiences plus your own inspiration.
Individual Consultations
4) 6 - 7pm - Roads to Publication Question & Answer
- Mainstream ambitions with Wendy Robertson and Avril Joy
- The freelance option – Self publishing with John Alderson of HPM and Gillian Wales
8pm LITERARY DINNER WITH GUEST AUTHORS