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The Story Arc Workshop Friday 27 June – 10:00am
Hello writers,Thanks for coming to the last five writing sessions, during which we have examined different genres, form, and structure. We will meet again to write on Friday, 27 June, at 10:00 a.m. (Note the time change.) This is the last writing session of six planned workshops. After this session, the group has agreed to meet once a month. Contact me for more information and directions to Casa Alexandra, near Santo Estevão. sue@suehall.net The topic on the 27th is Story Arcs. We will look at practical examples, such as Barbara Kingsolver’s Poisonwood Bible, which has a strong and impactful story arc. You are invited to consider your writing, create a…
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Outline and Editing – Writing workshop – Monday 29 February
The upcoming writing workshop on Monday, 29 February 2:30 pm at Tavira library will consider the joint themes of outline and editing. Over the last few weeks, we have looked at scene, dialogue, description character and more. The last workshop focused on descriptive exercises within a scene. Some timed writing exercises were attempted, completed and shared. This next session will suggest ways of critically assessing our work and how to begin the self-editing process and also how to get help from a beta-group. When a professional editor first reads an author’s work, they try to tune into what is being said and reflect back to the writer an immediate emotional response and not…
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Writing workshop – Description and Scene
In the last writing workshop on February 1st, we talked about the role of dialogue as a technique to develop plot and move a story along. Regina Shrimpton created a couple of dialogue exercises and we worked through them to compress and improve. Some writers believe great dialogue should be a chain of poetic or comic gems, zingers of brilliantly crafted one-liners. Some believe it should be exactly like everyday speech. The key to writing effective dialogue is a compressed mixture of the two.
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Dialogue workshop – Tavira Library, 1st February
Dialogue, I have been thinking about dialogue. Words spoken by imaginary characters have filled my head for two weeks. My cold and cough have blocked some of the voices, but today, the dialogue between two characters is a source of amusement. Josie Whistler, old hippy, owner of a festival food van has a lot to say. She talks to her dead mother. She talks to her dead sister. Her daughter wants Josie committed. I am aware Josie’s voice started during a writing prompt in ‘week one” of the Algarve writing workshops.
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Writing Workshops, 2016, in Tavira, Algarve
Starting on Monday, 4 January 2016, writing workshops will begin again at the library in Tavira. The theme for the first session will be Narrative, story, plot and content. Six, Monday afternoon sessions have been planned. We will meet every two weeks, so there will be plenty of time to digest information and to write.
