Take Your Writing to the Next Level with Sunday Times bestselling author Rowan Coleman
Whether you an absolute beginner or getting your writing ready for publication this 8 week course will give you the skills you need to hone your craft and reach your full potential over a series of 8 x 90 minute workshops in a group of 15 writers, during which you will workshop ideas and techniques and have the opportunity to share your work with your peers and receive feedback. Also includes 1 x 30 min one2one session with Rowan
1. Pitch Perfect
hone and streamline your existing idea or begin to originate a new one, learning how to develop a stand out idea that will attract publishers, agents and readers.
2. Plot Twist – part one
Learn the skills you need to plot effectively, building an idea into a novel with exactly the right action, pace, theme and emotion to act as a roadmap to both writing and editing your novel.
3. Character Building
Learn how to create compelling characters that live on the page by using plot, motivation and conflict to build the cast of your novel.
4. Dazzling Dialogue
Discover how to use dialogue to show character, plot, conflict, pace and with
ease, creating distinct voices that leap off the page.
5. Theme and how to use it.
Find out how to use the big idea of theme to both elevate and enrich your work by giving it a meaning that is more than the sun if it’s parts.
6. Plot Twist – part two
Explore how all the craft techniques explored previously all contribute toward the building blocks of you work and how they power the engine of story, by working in perfect unison.
7. Your Road map to the end.
Starting a novel is hard. Finishing one is harder. You’ll learn about habits, techniques and practices that will turn you writing dream into a reality.
8. Preparing fur submission
How to prepare for seeking an agent or publisher, or hue to get ready for self publication. Learn to write the perfect pitch letter and how to show case your work in the strongest way.