Happily, I’ll be hosting three writing workshops this coming month. I’d love to have you there
1 October – Free Workshop at Rondebosch Public Library
My family and I visit the library pretty much every week and we spend hours there browsing, and listening to stories read by the fantastic children’s librarians. So I am very excited to offer a free creative writing workshop on Wednesday 1 October, from 4-5 pm.
Bring some paper and a pen, and we’ll have a lovely time!
25 October, 11am – 3pm (Rondebosch)
31 October, 9am – 1pm (Online)
When you have worked out your character’s voice, and the way they interact with other characters in a story, you can really start to have a lot of fun. In this workshop we’ll play with:
- Trying out different ways that a character speaks – their vocabulary, their tone of voice, their sentence length.
- Exploring things to try and to avoid when writing dialogue.
- Sharing some great examples of dialogue from fiction, non-fiction, and memoir.
- Putting oppositional characters in conversation with each other to build tension.
- Looking at how to use and reference modern ways of communicating in your story.
You’ll leave with fresh writing that gets your characters in conversation, moving your plot forward, and helping us to invest more deeply in the story you’re telling.
The price for the in-person workshop is R500 and the price for the online workshop is R400.
As always, if you’d like to join a workshop, you can pop me an email on jenthorpewrites@gmail.com
See you soon!
Jen Thorpe 