Beginner'S Recipe For Creating Writing

More and more people are discovering the benefit of sitting down and pouring thoughts or whimsy onto paper in a coffee break. Writing can help us make sense of our environment. It can be escape, confession, mindfulness, even therapy.

Treat yourself to the perfect recipe for a short story or even shorter flash fiction, in tasty nibbles. The ingredients can be sweet memories, adventure, rants or flippant fun. In easy bites, discover the secrets to grabbing your reader, so they feel every ‘aah!’ and ‘ouch!’

Creative writing will help you squeeze the juice from every word so you can taste, smell, hear and feel with your story hero. In this friendly class, one sweet prompt can spark a thousand discussions, often hilarious, and give you endless inspiration with new and delicious ways to look at life and writing.

Revitalise your writing with a fun, comfy course to make your stories delicious!

Course Framework

• The first session will concentrate on the story arc and basics covering how to keep it short and plotting, with a good hook at the start. We will discuss the importance of problems for the star of our story. With another prompt, we will try to capture a taste.

• The second session will study character looking at empathy, pathos and an emotive situation. Using light brushstrokes for description, we will discuss how to write someone we know in three sentences. With another prompt we will try to savour a scent.

• The third will deal with setting, addressing mood, conflict, weather and timing. We will discuss genres and write a moody paragraph. With another prompt we will try to describe an atmosphere including the extra sensory like ghosts.

• The fourth will deal with dialogue and its uses. Using accents and quirks of speech to define character and intent. We will take a short conversation and improve it. With another prompt we will try to capture a sound in words.

• The fifth session will deal with writing creatively, bringing out the juice from the character and the setting and stirring it up. With another prompt we will try to capture the texture under our fingertips.

• The final session will be about pace/tension, and physical and emotional outcomes/ consequences. Even the simplest story has threads which need knitting together at the end. We will discuss a reader’s ideal ending and how to achieve it. With another prompt we will investigate the first impressions of a stranger.