Writing Workshop

  How to Keep Your Reader in the Fictional Dream

 

                                                    Reading a good story is like  being in a 'vivid and continuous dream' (John Gardner)

 

Please join Deb (Ali is on a short writing sabbatical) on Thursday 25th February, 10am -12.30 at Judson's, Pocklington. £15 including coffee and cake, of course.

 

We'll be exploring techniques for our own writing (control of vocabulary; handling sentences; developing style) that can save us from distracting the reader from this 'dream'.  As always, we'll look at how the some of the best contemporary writers do it.

Do come and join us - and please book your place asap.

Best wishes

Deb and Ali

we're back!

Great heavens above! How did it come to this? No internet access for five days - that's FIVE WHOLE DAYS, people! What's it like? It's like one's right arm has been not just cut off, but brutally severed, that's what!

So much for changing to superfast broadband, BT... something of a slow start! And guess what: the reason for our stuttering start to superfast? The guy at the BT cabinet had plugged us into the wrong port. Yep. Highly technical. I throw my hands up in horror. No, I really do.

Oof. So glad to be back - and look out for Deb with our latest Thoughttree Writing Workshop later in February! As for me - now that I'm over the shock of the superfast fiasco - am taking a sabbatical to write the next novel. Will continue to blog though - there will be many on the subject of writer's block and what on earth do I write next, no doubt!