Idea Generation and Character-Driven Prose with Yvonne Battle-Felton
This interactive workshop will include writing exercises, questions, and activities that aim to ignite your curiosity about your characters and help to explore the story the character want or needs to tell. Using a character you’re already writing or one you create for the exercise, we will be exploring objects, setting, and interviewing characters to reveal who the character is, what they want, why they don’t have it, what they’re willing to do to get what they want, and of course, what they’re afraid of.
The aim of the workshop is to help you generate ideas, questions, and curiosities that will drive the story and/or keep you curious enough to return to the page.
Your Workshop Leader
Yvonne Battle-Felton is a writer, academic, podcaster, and event creator living and writing in West Yorkshire, England. Yvonne’s debut novel, Remembered (Hachette UK/Blackstone US), was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction (2019) and shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize (2020). She’s written six titles for Penguin Random House’s Ladybird series and is Academic Director for Creative Writing at Cambridge University Institute of Continuing Education. Yvonne is Sr Commissioning Editor (literary fiction) at John Murrays Press (Hachette). Curdle Creek (Hachette UK, Macmillan US), a gothic horror set in a rural town with a strict population policy of one in, one out, is her newest book.
About the event:
Running time: 105 minutes including breaks
Venue: Cheviot Room
Tickets: £19.50 / £16 (plus 50p booking fee)
The event will be take place in-person. Workshops are not recorded.
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