Waking your characters and letting them run
We will be looking at four basic elements of fiction writing: how to bring your characters into focus, how to decide who is going to tell your story, the importance of setting, and the relationship between character and plot. This course is suitable for anyone interested in novel-writing as well as writers of short stories.
Single room: £595Shared room: £545
Monday, 16th August 2010
End Date:
Saturday, 21st August 2010
Kate Long is the author of five novels, including bestseller The Bad Mother’s Handbook which she helped adapt for television. Her latest novel is A Mother’s Guide to Cheating.
Luke Sutherland’s novels include Jelly Roll, which was short-listed for the 1998 Whitbread First Novel Award, Sweetmeat and Venus as a Boy, which is being adapted for the screen by Film Four, in conjunction with Picture Palace North.
Francesca Main is a commissioning editor for fiction at Simon & Schuster. She previously worked at Hamish Hamilton and Penguin.
The Hurst - The John Osborne Arvon Centre
Clunton, Craven Arms
Shropshire
SY7 0JA
Tel: 01588 640658
Fax: 01588 640509
Email: thehurst@arvonfoundation.org
