Monday, December 23, 2024
Structure (Recorded) Worrying about plot, structure and storytelling isn’t only for writers who’ve been told they have a saggy middle. Some writers can’t get writing at all until they’ve got everything worked out; some writers can’t think about structure till they...
Monday, December 23, 2024
Character Thursday, February 20, 20256:00 – 8:00 pm GMT Everyone says that character is the foundation of storytelling, but what does that mean? How do you develop convincing, lifelike characters while still using them to power your plot? And what if your...
Monday, December 23, 2024
Voice & Prose Thursday, March 27, 20256:00 – 8:00 pm GMT Voice is the element which all agents and editors say they are looking for in a manuscript – but that’s by no means the only reason to work hard on the word-by-word text and textures of your novel: in the end,...
Tuesday, November 26, 2024
Pitch Perfect Thursday April 24, 6:00 – 8:00 pm BST It’s not only agents and editors who judge a book by the first page: in an industry driven by ‘Look Inside the Book’, the opening of a novel or memoir is one of the keys which draws a reader in irresistibly – or...
Saturday, October 26, 2024
Psychic Distance Masterclass Thursday May 29, 6:00 – 8:30 pm BST Psychic Distance: the fiction writer’s secret sauce. Over the years Emma has found that learning to work with psychic distance – often called narrative distance or emotional distance –...
