Writers' Stretch & Tone
Writers' Stretch & Tone
Matthew Curlewis, the Netherlands
A six-week workshop cycle for both advanced and beginner writers to stop thinking and start doing. Generate new work, revise old work, experiment with form and style and generally keep your writerly muscles fit - all in the company of other like-minded writers.
For this workshop, whether you have a story or a project already in process or not doesn’t matter. Writing suggestions during the sessions will always give you somewhere to start. Then it’s your choice whether you try out different voices and approaches in a new piece of writing or you continue to develop a work already in progress.
By the end of each session, you will have created new work. You will also have heard some fellow participants read their new work out loud - and sometimes you may have read out loud yourself. (Reading is always optional.) What will always remain is that thinking, by itself, doesn’t produce writing. Writing produces writing!
Time is also made available, when requested, to read and analyse participant manuscripts - no matter what their form. This might mean reviewing short stories and essays, at other times screenplay excerpts or works still finding their form. Feedback is given in two rounds:
- What's working? What's already good in this manuscript?
- Are there any obstacles or confusions? Any suggestions on how to improve this piece of writing?
At the culmination of six weeks, your writerly muscles will be stronger and more flexible, and you will feel fitter as a writer. This in turn will give you greater confidence for taking on further or more complex writing challenges.
Cycle of workshops: six weekly sessions
Tuesday evenings from 22 September to 27 October, 19:00 to 21:30
Spaces are limited to 10 participants maximum.
Event repeats
- Writers' Stretch & Tone (29 September 2020 19:00 CEST)
- Writers' Stretch & Tone (06 October 2020 19:00 CEST)
- Writers' Stretch & Tone (13 October 2020 19:00 CEST)
- Writers' Stretch & Tone (20 October 2020 19:00 CEST)
- Writers' Stretch & Tone (27 October 2020 19:00 CET)