Alternative Rewriting Techniques for Fiction Writers (Online)

All writing is rewriting but we can spend too much time on the unimportant aspects. Save yourself time and worry with this workshop.

In this interactive rewriting workshop we will take an alternative look at the core elements of storytelling and how, in the most practical of ways, you use them to bring more life to your stories through the drafting process. Ideal for writers of novels and short stories who are struggling with restructuring, revising or rehashing their current project(s).

We talk a lot about the function of fiction writing in our regular workshops - aka 'elements of fiction' - but are they functioning at the right level in your current piece of work? Yes or no? How do you know...?

Here we will do an array of exercises together that will illustrate how to review, reconsider and rewrite for those core functions in your stories. We all want to bring everything to life more vividly and it can be done more easily than you realise. Even if your story takes place on a distant red planet where genius ants rule over all, we are always (always) trying to say something about what it means to be alive today, right?

We will have time to go through it so I won't spoil it too much but we'll take a run at characterising your text, defying readers' expectations, saggy middles, pacing at line level, underwriting vs. overwriting, body language in dialogue, theme as more than background music and much more. If I may be so bold - I challenge you not to learn something useful.

For anyone who is rewriting a story right now - no matter its genre, length or context, I know you'll find practical advice about where you really need to spend the time to produce your next draft.

Open to all writers from complete newbies to those been at it for ages. Any other questions, please post a comment below and I'll respond.

Location: Online via Google Meet. The link will be visible once you've booked your ticket.

Tickets: £15 for event organisation, teaching, venue hire and preparation. Please follow the steps via Meetup to pay via PayPal. You can bring a guest (add their ticket to yours) but no children (under 18) for safeguarding reasons.

Refund Policy: Refunds or credits will only be offered if the meetup is cancelled by admin. Please change your RSVP to 'Not Going' if you can no longer attend as we often have people waiting and we'd hate for them to miss out.

Date & Timing: Tuesday, April 21st from 7:00pm to 9:30pm with a short break in the middle.

Sorted! Hope to see you there.
Lisa

This workshop is led by me. I've been leading writing workshops for over fifteen years, I've taught publishing seminars at CityLit and I've worked for a variety of publishers since 2004.