This course is tailor-made to facilitate emerging writers, those with on-going projects, as well as published authors. The aim of the 8 sessions is to assist writers to realise their writing ambitions and potential by finding and using their skills to create fiction for today’s literary market.  Focus is on creating page-turning characters and locations to enhace story line, concurrent with analysing the works of today’s successful authors.  Sessions are arranged to allow time for writing, and constructive individual and group analysis of participant’s work.

 Writing powerful, bestselling fiction for today’s market is an acquired skill with focus on creating page-turning characters, atmospheric locations that enhance story line, best methods of research and era identification and interpretation as well as strong plot lines and gripping themes. Dynamic characters are a vital component of any story. Within the pages of fiction they need to unfold gradually and develop and change throughout the plot. Fictional characters thrive when backed by story-enhancing locations, in depth interpretation of era, good writing practice, etc.   This 8-session course ensures the creations of powerful fictional characters, visual locations, in-depth awareness of era, etc. The purpose of this course is to assist writers at all levels of writing to find and use their story-telling skills to best advantage. The sessions are tailor-made to appeal to emerging writers, writers already working on projects and published writers. The only requirement for attendance is a love of words and an interest in writing fiction. Primary concentration is focussed on optimum ways of  researching and creating dynamic characters, optimum locations and era along with narrative and dialogue to best advantage , concurrent with analysing the works of today’s successful authors.