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SUMMARY:Dip Your Toe
DESCRIPTION:A series of six writing workshops to get you started or unstuck. \nSESSION 1: JUNE 13\nAnnie de Monchaux – Getting Started\nThe basics of writing\, including word choices\, the anatomy of a paragraph\, avoiding self-criticism and the importance of positivity. \nSESSION 2: JUNE 20\nGerard McCann – Writing Memoir\nExploring 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. \nSESSION 3: JUNE 27\nLisa Ellery – Self-Editing\nA practical ten-point plan to help writers overcome cliché\, repetition and other deadly sins to create prose that’s pacy\, punchy and vivid. \nSESSION 4: JULY 4\nMichele Johnston – Making Your Sentences Soar\n‘The sentence is a self-contained world of wonder.’ Tips to make your sentences soar\, sing and set your readers’ hearts aflame. \nSESSION 5: JULY 11\nLouise Wolhuter – Building Characters\nPutting 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. \nSESSION 6: AUGUST 1\nNandi Chinna – Metaphor\nOriginal 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. \nAll sessions booked individually so you can pick and choose.
URL:https://www.writingwa.org/event/dip-your-toe/
LOCATION:The Reuben Room – Ode to Sirens\, 25 High Street\, Fremantle\, 6160
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