Short Story Skills: Finding and capturing ideas for stories
Zoom Writing Workshop with Tony Kirwood
Short Story Skills: Finding and capturing ideas for stories
Two-session online workshop, 1 - 1.5 hours per session, live teaching, via Zoom.
The length of the sessions varies depending on the session topic and the questions and discussions that arise.
Sessions will be a minimum of one hour.
Only ten places available on this workshop.
Starting Thursday 13th February 2025 at 7.00PM (BST) for two weeks ending 20th February 2025
Times shown: Greenwich Mean Time
If you are interested in future dates for this workshop please email: [email protected]
Workshop fee: £49.99
(meeting invite will be sent out a couple of days prior to the workshop)
Only ten places available on this workshop.
Starting Thursday 13th February 2025 at 7.00PM (BST) for two weeks ending 20th February 2025
Times shown: Greenwich Mean Time
If you are interested in future dates for this workshop please email: [email protected]
Workshop fee: £49.99
(meeting invite will be sent out a couple of days prior to the workshop)
Workshop Leader
Tony Kirwood
Tony writes fiction, articles and comedy sketches. Much of his work is humorous although sometimes it's scary. Sometimes it's both. His non-scary book How To Write Comedy was cited by the Stage Newspaper as the best training book of the year. He’s had stories in the fantasy genre published and read out. His column The Blog of Samuel Pepys appeared regularly in The Greenwich Visitor paper.
Tony teaches creative writing, comedy writing, comedy appreciation and drama in colleges and venues across the country. He tutors regular classes at Richmond and Hillcroft Adult Community College in South London. He has also led workshops at literary festivals and similar events.
Tony teaches creative writing, comedy writing, comedy appreciation and drama in colleges and venues across the country. He tutors regular classes at Richmond and Hillcroft Adult Community College in South London. He has also led workshops at literary festivals and similar events.
Workshop Outline
Ideas and inspiration are all around us. A writer simply needs to capture and unpick them so they can be transmuted into ideas for stories.
In these two sessions you will learn how to use a variety of prompts to fire your imagination: visual images, memories, everyday life and characters and television, film, other stories and books.
You will see how by firing the right questions at your raw idea you can shape it into a workable premise.
By the end of the course you will have formed an idea and turned it into a solid story concept.
This workshop is run by Budding Writers in partnership with The Writers Bureau.
By taking part in this workshop you will:
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meet other writers
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have time to ask questions as there are only ten participants per group
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learn where to find ideas for stories
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find out how to interrogate an idea to turn it into a story
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gain increased self-confidence to take your writing forward on your own.
Starting Thursday 13th February 2025 at 7.00PM (GMT) for two weeks ending 20th February 2025
Workshop fee: £49.99