Do you have the right words in your head but struggle to get them onto the page? Perhaps an important email, a letter to a good friend, a heartfelt message in a Christmas card to a loved one, maybe it's a short story or article, a memoir chapter, or simply your own journal. This friendly, hands-on workshop is a place to bring your hand and heart together, so what you think and feel finally flows onto the page. Over three relaxed two-hour sessions, you'll join a small, supportive group to try simple exercises, share your work and give and receive encouraging feedback.

Put aside old schooldays fears about writing. There's no competition and no wrong answers, just practice, support and the magic that happens when people put pen to paper together. Bring a working draft, something you've started or a piece you want to improve, and watch it grow with the group's help. You'll also explore how AI tools can help you brainstorm, edit and get unstuck when the words won't come, yet keeping your own voice of what you create. Whatever you'd like to put into words and wherever you're starting from, come along, switch on the 'fun-enjoy-satisfaction' button, and connect with others and leave with greater confidence and words that truly sound like you

Participants are required to bring a laptop.

DELIVERY MODE

Face to face

COURSE RESOURCES

• https://www.stephaniedowrick.com - creative journal
• https://www.marktredinnick.com – Mark Tredinnick – Bowral Poet
• https://www.writersandartiists.co.uk
• Margaret Atwood (2015) On Writers and Writing (ISBN) 9780349006239

COURSE OUTLINE

• Writing workshops are a highway to better writing for all-comers. A creativity flow space with ‘no competition’ or comparisons, just effort, supportive practice and encouragement, generating a unique dynamic alchemical atmosphere that pushes us on.
• Three 2-hour sessions are suited to everyone wanting to improve writing skills in all forms, we start with free-range writing exercises – with ‘no mistakes’ just effort.
• Tailored delivered content, helpful group interaction and feedback, readings and we spend a session co-working with AI
• The tangible vital alchemy of writing workshops subtly feeds participants in their writing.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

By the end of this course, students should be able to:

• Know and be able to choose easy ways to get started and keep momentum
• Recognise and apply features of affective and effective writing to their work
• Co-work - play with AI to review and boost their workpieces, aware of its many pitfalls,
• Feel greater confidence and self-direction with a Workshop workpiece to progress further.