About the event
Join William Sutton, author of the Campbell Lawless Victorian Mysteries, for a series of writing workshops held in our beautiful Dress Circle saloon space. All events are individually bookable.
Fri 13 Sept – Portsmouth Writers’ Social – Free entry but donations are appreciated!
A great free taster session before you get started on your writing journey. Come and meet some fellow writers and get inspired!
Fri 11 Oct – Writing for Procrastinators
Mañana, mañana. Do your writing projects linger in your drawer and hard drive? Come and be coaxed into breaking through.
Turn your weaknesses into strengths. Develop characters, settings, plots, endings. Try methods to crash through blocks and get words on the page in these friendly, informal workshops with novelist, William Sutton.
Fri 8, 15, 22 Nov – Write Your Historical Novel
A short course in Historical Novel writing. We can’t promise a polished novel and a publishing deal but we will get you to explore the thrill and adventure of historical writing, along with:
- hints for drafting
- tips for avoiding pitfalls of research and anachronisms
- melding your experience with concerns and events of the time
- creating a Bygonese language appropriate for your era, but readable
Come and explore, whether it’s Ancient Greece or wartime Portsmouth, Elizabethan England or mediaeval Mesopotamia.
Fri 13 Dec – Edit Your Writing
1st rule of Edit Club: don’t trust spellcheck.
Tackle this crucial part of the writing process. Pick up specific tips on how to improve dialogue, layout, structure, character and more. Bring a section of your writing and discover how seriously writers take editing.
Since Portsmouth Bookfest 2021’s sold-out Take Your Novel Further and Write Your Novel courses, a group of writers local and far-flung have met regularly online to edit their work, reshaping, pruning, prodding, developing early drafts towards publishable standard, in preparation for submitting to agents or publishers. Novelist William Sutton shares tips, pitfalls and secrets of the dark arts of editing.
Appropriate for committed writers, all ages, writing fiction, drama, short story or non-fiction.
“Tutor was dynamic, knowledgeable, encouraging, empathetic.”
“Such a supportive group.”
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