Dip Your Toe
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A series of six writing workshops to get you started or unstuck.SESSION 1: JUNE 13
Annie de Monchaux - Getting Started
The basics of writing, including word choices, the anatomy of a paragraph, avoiding self-criticism and the importance of positivity.
SESSION 2: JUNE 20
Gerard McCann - Writing Memoir
Exploring sensory memory as the source for feeling the creative - memoir, short story or fiction - in that all expression comes from lived experience, however banal, extraordinary or traumatic.
SESSION 3: JUNE 27
Lisa Ellery - Self-Editing
A practical ten-point plan to help writers overcome cliché, repetition and other deadly sins to create prose that’s pacy, punchy and vivid.
SESSION 4: JULY 4
Michele Johnston - Making Your Sentences Soar
‘The sentence is a self-contained world of wonder.’ Tips to make your sentences soar, sing and set your readers’ hearts aflame.
SESSION 5: JULY 11
Louise Wolhuter - Building Characters
Putting the mice in your doll’s house. A leap-then-look approach to creating characters capable of carrying your story; and tips and tricks to lift them off the page.
SESSION 6: AUGUST 1
Nandi Chinna - Metaphor
Original and exciting metaphor can make a manuscript sing. A fun, expansive exploration of simile and metaphor and finding the perfect metaphor to lift your manuscript onto the publisher’s ‘yes’ list.
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Dip Your ToeLocation
The Reuben Room
Ode to Sirens, 25 High Street, Fremantle WA 6160
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