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Mike McCormack workshop at Dalkey Creates
October 21, 2017 @ 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
€95
Join Mike McCormack at the Dalkey Creates festival for a day-long writing workshop. From the Dalkey Creates website:
About This Course
All stories belong to people or, as we say in fiction writing, characters. But how do we find and develop these characters? How do we enable them to take on a credible life of their own so that the reader will want to spend time and empathise with them? What kind of story arc enables a character to best develop as a living, breathing presence? How do these characters change and grow across the length and breadth of a novel or a short story? And when it comes to the end, how do we recognise it as the end, how do we know that a story is over?
These are some of the issues which will be explored in this workshop. Reading and writing exercises will delve into how we can bring our characters to life and deepen their stories. A range of compositional experiments will be attempted and revision techniques will be explored. Participants will come away with an enhanced range of ideas and experimental techniques that will further their own writing projects.
Who is this course suitable for?
Those who have started writing, and those who have maybe paused for a while and are looking for a way back in.
Check out the Dalkey Creates Festival website for booking information.