'WE ARE THE AUTHORS OF OUR OWN NARRATIVES, IN OUR LIVES AS WELL AS OUR WRITING'
ONGOING 6 MONTH WRITERS' COURSE
Whether the life experience you want to document is yours or someone else's,
whether it’s expressed through prose,
your own voice or a character/a set of characters in a script
or through a memoir or a novel,
during these upcoming six months,
my aim, focus and intention is to guide your material into a fulfilling and compelling narrative shape.
There is no single ‘right’ way to write, there is no prescriptive approach to self-expression,
to finding your own narrative,
to find courage to express your voice as well as the truth your story.
BUT there is the holding of a creative and save space,
there is guidance and support for structure, for clarity, and there is encouragement thus help,
to realise your potential as a writer and with courage as an author,
so that you can pen down your creative work in the best and most nurtured yet free way you can.
Yes, there are tools to the craft of writing, but more importantly there is the freedom
to write in a way that feels true to you and shares the memories, insights, feelings or the complete story you have set out to tell.
This six months course is meant to create and hold a space for each in the group to be a writer – supported to put what’s within onto paper and help you to feel that you have permission to take yourself and your narrative of your story, as well as your life seriously!
Self-honour and respect for what channels through you is key!
This course will give you courage to believe in yourself,
give you support to grasp your own intention and
dismiss and starve the voice of your inner critic,
so that the saboteur won’t stand between you and your finished first draft any longer!!
I intend to create a safe haven, where each of you and your writing ambitions
are honoured and respected – by me, your peers, but first and foremost by yourself!
Writing is a craft like any other. It needs balance and room for inspiration, and once written,
it needs courage to share within a group.
I won’t allow judgment or even positive criticism during our Saturdays,
other than a response how each listener got affected, touched or inspired by.
Your ‘writing’ can and will be refined through guiding you to follow your instinct,
through the actual practice of ‘writing’, commitment to it and unconditional,
encouraging feedback,
once you read out what you’ve expressed.
It will be heard - with offered suggestions regarding the storyline,
characters, the narrative, the intention and its clarity-
in the individual zoom meetings, I will offer in between, once having worked through
each chapter, pages, outpourings you’ll hand (or send) me each time.
This also provides important deadlines - for each time we meet.
And I will include myself - so I'm in the pool of creating and sharing, with its joy, battles and vulnerabilities with transcribing my screenplay Surrender into the novel “The Unrealisable Dream of permanence!”
My Suggestion for Dora's title of her own life experiences was given today too:)) “Failure? No. Liberation? Yes!”
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This six months writers’ course 'We are the Authors of our own Narratives, in our Life as well as our writing!’ is offered to max six participants, to keep the space intimate and nurtured instead of intimidated and yet inspiring and mutually supportive and encouraging!
Bring any wish or idea, poems, prose, a screenplay, a memoir, any written sharing of yourselves, you name it! Just be clear of what you aim for, which experience you wish for.
I try to keep pricing as low as possible, so you can commit to the seven days (á 100£) -
hopefully in person in Battersea at mine or possibly in Hove at Dora's,
she mentioned as a possibility??
Plus six individual One to One 1hour to 1 and a half hours (á 60£) ZOOM sessions with me,
where we'll discuss your thoughts, questions, possible difficulties and my edit suggestions…
also over six months in between the whole day Saturday meetings.
Dates:
Saturdays 2025
- about 7 hours each
Nov 15th
Dec 13th
Saturday 2026
- about 7 hours each
Jan 10th
Feb 14th
Mar 21st
Apr 25th
May 23rd
Then one more Saturday
Sept 15th
As a follow-up 8th Day -three months later, to support you and each other, to get it out into the world- share it! (for half price of 50£)
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And still, good writing always contains the intuitive, a fibre of the unexpected or inexplicable.
Therefore, this course will also help you to learn to listen to your own writing instincts.
‘Accepting’ is the key for you to produce the best work possible, encouraging and supporting you towards
‘Allowing’ words, ideas, intentions words and stories to flow through,
that only you could have written!
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Fee (total):
1110 Pounds Sterling / per person
(payable in monthly installments)
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