The Writer's Journey Workshop

by Melina Marchetta

Description

The workshop:

1: Who? What? Where? All in a six-word memoir.

2: Show not tell.

3: She said/He said/They said. The power of characterisation through dialogue.

4: Less is more.

5: Watch your tone.

6: Past tense/present tense and the narrative voice.

7: Research! Research! Research! (but don’t let them see it in your writing)

8: Adaptation and scriptwriting.

9: Genre writing and subverting the conventions (Focus on crime and fantasy)

10: Submitting your manuscript in the 21st. century!

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Duration

This workshop was originally created for 10 x 50minute weekly lessons.  It can be condensed easily to a one-day workshop, a weekend workshop, a 60 minute workshop.

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