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Do you have the right words in your head but struggle to get them onto the page? Perhaps an important email, a letter to a good friend, a heartfelt message in a card to a loved one, maybe it's a short story or article, a memoir chapter, or simply your own journal. This friendly, hands-on workshop is a place to bring your hand and heart together, so what you think and feel finally flows onto the page. Over three relaxed two-hour sessions, you'll join a small, supportive group to try simple exercises, share your work and give and receive encouraging feedback.

Put aside old schooldays fears about writing. There's no competition and no wrong answers, just practice, support and the magic that happens when people put pen to paper together. Bring a working draft, something you've started or a piece you want to improve, and watch it grow with the group's help. You'll also explore how AI tools can help you brainstorm, edit and get unstuck when the words won't come, yet keeping your own voice of what you create. Whatever you'd like to put into words and wherever you're starting from, come along, switch on the 'fun-enjoy-satisfaction' button, and connect with others and leave with greater confidence and words that truly sound like you.

DELIVERY MODE

Face to face

COURSE RESOURCES

• https://www.stephaniedowrick.com - creative journal
• https://www.marktredinnick.com – Mark Tredinnick – Bowral Poet
• https://www.writersandartiists.co.uk
• Margaret Atwood (2015) On Writers and Writing (ISBN) 9780349006239
• onlinewithEmilyperkinsandCharlottewood.com.au 
• Your favourite book - to bring to the workshop

COURSE OUTLINE

• Three 2-hour sessions suited to all-comers wanting a reminder of the basic essentials, as well as improve their writing skills in all genres of writing
• Here is a safe setting to write, unlike our schoolyears, here there are 'no-mistakes' - just getting words of paper - we start with free-range writing exercises
• Delivered content, readings and positive, helpful feedback, and we spend one session co-working with AI (bring your laptops and/or tablets)
• Workshops are a creativity flow space where there are ‘no-mistakes’, just applied effort, support and positive discussion about our workpieces, all of which create a dynamic alchemy that pushes us on. This is a highway to improving your writing at all levels

LEARNING OUTCOMES

By the end of this course, students should be able to:

• Grasp and use the basis essentials of writing, and features of affective and effective writing
• Co-work - play with AI to review and boost their workpieces, aware of its pitfalls
• Have created a Workshop workpiece, and learnt how to improve an existing  draft further
• Be at ease with AI as a helpful tool to improve your drafts