Next meeting Will be Monday 19th May

NEW date: 19th May.

Take note all ye writers.! Next session will be VERY PRACTICAL!! Ines and I put heads together and I think you will be very pleased ( we hope) with the resulting input.

We will be continuing from Dr. Janice Russell's session, putting your pen and creative energies to much use! JOIN US! Be prepared to start playing around with some perspectives for real.

A brief summary of Creative Writing Worskshop with Dr. Janice Russell

'POINT OF VIEW' IN CREATIVE WRITING - Dr. Janice Russell

Here are a selection of some of the practical ideas that Janice mentioned in her workshop on 14th April. You just have to put that pen to work – write, write and write!

TIPS

• Start writing, anything,for at least 12 minutes, first thing or any time of the day, but everyday.
• Begin with the end in mind:
  · What impact do you want to make on your reader?
  · How can you achieve this?
• Take the point of view from something unusual, like a bunch of keys.
• Experience from that perspective and write. You can turn anything into a story!
• Write the same event from different perspectives: technically this could involve 1st person, 3rd person, omniscient observer, multiple points of view, and, yes, 2nd person.
• Make your characters plausible/believable.
• Use the senses. Check which you tend to use most naturally and experiment using the others - write the same piece. Each one emphasising a different sense.
• Vary pace and length of chapters (book writing! But could also apply to sentences!)
• Put a few pinches of humour in.
• Care about your characters – or not!
• Aim to intrigue the reader by involving them in solving the plot.
• Read something then write 500 words in the same style.
• Analyse books you have enjoyed, sentence by sentence – pick them apart to find out: “How did the writer do it?”
  

Be BOLD!

TASK
For next Creative writing session on Monday May 12th:
Experiment with one or more of the above ideas.

Janice has kindly made her PowerPoint available to those who attended her workshop. You can get this from allyson.roberts@mail.telepac.pt

Happy writing.
Allyson

FINAL REMINDER for CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP

A PRACTICAL, DYNAMIC WORKSHOP

Monday 14th April

12.00 – 14.00

Room 202


Limited to 20 participants
3 euros per person
First 20 to reserve their place and pay entrance fee to Ricardo Marques
ricardo.marques@fcsh.unl.pt

Janice Russell is a freelance writer and coaching consultant. She is well published in the UK in counselling, has one self published novel, and gained an MA Creative Writing in the UK. She now lives in the Algarve, and is the President of Network, the association for women working in the Algarve. Janice will be presenting a dynamic workshop, in English, on writing from different perspectives.