Psychic Distance – RECORDING

Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Psychic Distance Recording 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 – is the game-changer for her students. Sometimes you may...

Pitch Perfect – RECORDING

Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Pitch Perfect - Recording 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 lets them wander off. Before...

Memoir, Life Writing, Creative Non-fiction – Oct 23

Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Memoir, Life Writing, Creative Non-fiction  Thursday October 23, 6:00 – 8:00 pm GMT Writing about real lives and experiences – your own, or someone else’s – is rewarding but also daunting. What if you have too much information, or your story involves other people?...

Revising & Editing – November 25

Wednesday, August 13, 2025

Revising & Editing  Tuesday November 25, 6:00 – 8:00 pm GMT All writers know that the most important stage of writing is actually the re-write – and this tutorial gives you the opportunity to find out what that really means. Of course editing is about a whole lot...

Structure with Emma Darwin – RECORDING

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...