The Writers Bureau

Writing A Novel Part One - Starting points: The core idea, fleshing out the core idea, setting up your writing space and research.

Writing A Novel Part Two - Characters: the protagonist, the character profile, helping your imagination, bringing characters to life in your writing.

Writing A Novel Part Three - World Building: for the here and now, for historical novels, for science fiction and fantasy.

Writing A Novel Part Four - The First Draft: Plotting and writing your first draft.

Writing A Novel Part Five - The essential techniques of contemporary story telling: Layout, spelling and grammar, making your writing gorgeous, consistency, show, don’t tell, things to avoid, less is more, dialogue.

Writing A Novel Part Six - Writing your second and third drafts: how to edit your first draft, the structural edit, the line edit, theme, getting good feedback, writing your third draft, editing your third draft, the next step.

Introduction to Poetry - Beginners

How To Write A Biography - All levels including beginners

How To Write Short Stories - All levels including beginners

Show Not Tell - All levels including beginners

How To Write A Biography - All levels including beginners

Viewpoints and Tenses - All levels including beginners

How To Write Realistic Dialogue  - All levels including beginners

Creating Realistic Characters - All levels including beginners

Write A Blurb For Your Book - All levels