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Join one of the sessions during a writers’ retreat ..

Morning sessions: 10am-12.30pm

We will talk through writing issues: general or specific to your own writing. The discussion – and how the time might be split – will be decided the evening before, based on the needs of those who plan to attend. A session could include any/all of these ‘standard’ writing topics.

• Creating story ideas
• Inventing 3D characters
• Writing realistic dialogue
• Plotting
• Show versus tell
• Story structure

… and, according to individual requests and how the session develops, may stray into other topics – eg coping with imposter syndrome, or routes into publishing or finding your voice …

Afternoon sessions: 2.30-5pm

These sessions are our read/review opportunities. The writer will read aloud (or nominate someone else to read for them) an extract of their work. The other writers will then give feedback. The aim will be to encourage those who maybe lack confidence, to help each writer to overcome any issues and to suggest how the writer might develop the story and generally make great progress.