The Practice of Writing with Mia Gallagher

Saturday 15th and Sunday 16th May: 10.30am-4.30pm

I want to start a novel but I don’t know how… I have an idea for a novel/story/poem but I’m not sure if it will work… I’ve got stuck… I don’t know whether the choices I’ve made are working…. I’ve ended up doing the same thing again and I don’t know how not to… I want to take my work further but I don’t know how…

There is no generic ‘how-to’ when it comes to writing. Each writer is different, with a different mesh of concerns, obsessions, interests, habits, challenges, strengths, fears, hopes and blindspots. All these various elements are what make up an individual practice.  But a practice needs to be practised in order to get richer, more informed, more vital and, hopefully, generate more meaningful output.

This workshop is aimed at people who want to deepen their awareness of their writing process with a view to sustaining their writing practice in the long-term. Using elements which are key to the facilitator’s own practice – reading, dialogue, field trips, dedicated writing time, entertainment and critiquing – participants will explore ways of generating material, engaging with content and form and challenging their own (and others’) received notions of writing.

Maximum participants: 7

Course Outline:

Day One
Coffee & conversation: writing as practice
Field trip
Writing Time
Discussion of process experienced

Lunch

Discussion/clarification Liz Lerman Critical Response Model
Entertainment (cinema)
Discussion

Day Two
One-to-Many feedback sessions

Each participant will be asked to submit a sample of work (max 3,000 words) in advance of the workshop. All submissions will need to be read by all participants before the workshop. A copy of the Liz Lerman Critical Response Model will be forwarded to all participants so they can familiarise themselves with the framework and use that as a lens for reading and responding to the work submitted.

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