Five opportunities to write with me in September

Hello readers and writers and everyone out there in the world,

August is almost at its end – just nine days to go. For those of you who missed the news, every writing workshop booked with me in August receives a free copy of one of my books (The Peculiars, The Fall or Living While Feminist – your choice!) So if you’d like to book to write with me, email jenthorpewrites@gmail.com

In September there are five opportunities to write with me.

Creative Writing Workshops – 13 and 19 September

I’ll be running creative writing workshops on the theme of ‘feeling’ – think mood, vibe, emotion, tone, etc. It is going to be FUN! This is probably the most woo woo of all of this year’s workshops themes and I invite you to come along with me and GET CREATIVE. In this workshop we’ll play with:

• Sentence length and how it can create emotion or a sense of your character’s headspace.
• Using music to prompt a particular mood in a story (as well as the nitty gritty of using songs in your books and stories from a publishing perspective), and creating a playlist for your project.
• Using smell and fragrance to create believable characters, settings, and scenes.
• How different story structures can create different feelings.
• An exploration of genre and how it can determine what your reader expects from a story.
• Linking character, setting, and feeling to create an atmosphere.
• How to raise the stakes for your character to add drama and feeling.

You’ll leave with some brand new writing that gets to the emotional depths of a story, and moves people.

Birth writing workshops for moms

I’ll be running three online birth writing workshops in September. These cover the same content but in different ‘sizes’. Moms with very small babies can choose between a five day (short workshop each day via Whatsapp) or three day (hour long workshop each day) workshop. Moms with toddlers can attend a three hour writing workshop.

I ran the first two birth writing workshops in August and they were wonderful experiences. It’s such a powerful thing – to put your story down and take control and ownership of it.

Sign up via email on jenthorpewrites@gmail.com