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SFF Mini Goals
SFF Mini Goals
Mini goals session for science fiction and fantasy writers. Email billie@writingsquad.com to get the link.
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Rituals: How do you take your tea?
Rituals: How do you take your tea?
ZOOM, OPEN ALL SQUADS In this workshop we will look at rituals and how they appear in our own lives, what they reveal about us and how we can use them to strengthen our understanding of our characters. We will also explore how disrupting these rituals can function as a plot device using examples from […]
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Squad Assessment Centre: Storylining
Squad Assessment Centre: Storylining
OPEN TO ALL SQUADS, YORK - VENUE TBC This workshop will introduce you to the story process within soap. You will gain a unique insight into the way in which continuing drama hires Storyliners. Storyliners are responsible for generating ideas and structuring the story into each episode. We will also talk about what is expected […]
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Awesome Poetry: I’m OK, I’m Pig!
Awesome Poetry: I’m OK, I’m Pig!
One of the very best ways to become a better writer is to read widely and thoughtfully. Building on Emma and Matt’s great work in establishing the Awesome Play Text / Screenplay Reading Club, and Francesca's prose club, Malika and Stevie are hosting the Awesome Poetry Reading Club to focus on how we can read […]
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Short Story: First Draft, First Edit
Short Story: First Draft, First Edit
SQUAD 10 If you are a Squad grad (1-9), and would like to be added to the reserve list for this workshop, please email Billie on billie@writingsquad.com An uncompromising workshop in which Leone will explore how to edit the first draft of a short story and offer some hard golden rules that will last you […]
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First the words, then the music: An Introduction to Libretto
First the words, then the music: An Introduction to Libretto
OPEN TO ALL SQUADS, YORK - VENUE TBC This session will explore the relationship between text and music, and the numerous ways the two can interrelate in opera, art song and other classical forms (eg choral music). We will take a look at the different ways a collaborative relationship between a writer and a composer […]
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The Texture of Place: Writing Landscapes and Building Settings
The Texture of Place: Writing Landscapes and Building Settings
ZOOM, OPEN ALL SQUADS How can we make the places and locations in our writing feel three-dimensional and “real”? How do we avoid falling into clichés when writing about landscape and place? How can we capture a real/imagined place through senses, description, speech and muddled language? Can settings ever be as important as characters?
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The Butterfly in the Corner: Revitalising Old Myths
The Butterfly in the Corner: Revitalising Old Myths
SQUAD 10, LEEDS - VENUE TBC Now it is a well-known fact that literature is constantly in conversation with other literary text in some shape or form. This workshop will exploit this tradition as the starting point for writing our own poems. We will turn up to the blank notebook page armed with material, that […]
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SFF Mini Goals
SFF Mini Goals
Mini goals session for science fiction and fantasy writers. Email billie@writingsquad.com to get the link.
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What We Owe: Bad Art Friend Discussion
What We Owe: Bad Art Friend Discussion
It is easy enough to trigger a storm on Twitter, but some stories create a hurricane. ‘Who Is The Bad Art Friend?’, a New York Times Article by Robert Kolker, was one such story and has whipped up a slew of newspaper articles, Twitter threads, and memes ever since. Centred around the court case of Dawn Dorland […]
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Trauma and the Creative Writing Classroom
Trauma and the Creative Writing Classroom
A session exploring what trauma is, its relationship to creativity and strategies to develop a trauma-informed workshop practice. NB: This workshop will be from 2-4pm in MMU's Arts and Humanities Building, Manchester. What is trauma? What is PTSD? Why does it matter for workshop/arts facilitators? When difficult memories or subjects arise, what practical approaches or […]