NEXT MEETING: Tuesday 4 February 2020
We meet on the first and third Tuesday of each month from 7:00 to 9:00 in the Bees Knees at the Battersea Arts Centre. There is a small fee of £5 to cover our costs. (Scroll down to the bottom of this page to find directions.)
ORIGINAL WRITERS NEWS
September 2019 was the start of our first Original Writers Short Story Challenge, which is to conceive and write at least one short story to enter the Royal Society of Literature Short Story Competition in June 2020. https://rsliterature.org/award/v-s-pritchett-memorial-prize/
Our plan is to help you write as many short stories as possible, and fine tune these till you are ready to share them with the world. The Royal Literary Society Short Story Competition is just one of many and there is no stopping you from entering your work into other competitions.
We will focus our workshop lessons around this project covering subjects such as finding good ideas, writing first drafts, plotting and rewriting.
In each newsletter we will include links to short story articles and websites to give you inspiration and I hope that this project will produce a lot of finished work.
Our plan is to help you write as many short stories as possible, and fine tune these till you are ready to share them with the world. The Royal Literary Society Short Story Competition is just one of many and there is no stopping you from entering your work into other competitions.
We will focus our workshop lessons around this project covering subjects such as finding good ideas, writing first drafts, plotting and rewriting.
In each newsletter we will include links to short story articles and websites to give you inspiration and I hope that this project will produce a lot of finished work.
Visit our Writing Habit blog where we post a weekly article on writing.
We welcome writers from all walks of life as the more varied your opinions, the richer the workshop experience.
Please come along to our meetings. Even if you are just starting out and are just interested in writing, but have nothing to read, come along and experience the evening. As sometimes the best motivation to write is to hear how others got there before you.
We have many members: poets, novelists, playwrights, scriptwriters, historians, philosophers. It is a rich mix and makes a lively evening. Bring your work, whether these are short stories, poems, essays or just ideas and join us for an evening of chatting, sharing, planning, commiserating, pontificating - and all things about writing.
This is the perfect place to workshop your writing.
Occasionally we have writers ask if they can read from their published work. This doesn't
work for us as part of the enjoyment for listeners is in giving feedback. A published book is like a word carved in stone. There is nothing we can say. And that, as they say, is most disappointing. So we stick to work in progress, whether that is a first or tenth draft. That's when the group works best- both for the writer and the listener.
We have many members: poets, novelists, playwrights, scriptwriters, historians, philosophers. It is a rich mix and makes a lively evening. Bring your work, whether these are short stories, poems, essays or just ideas and join us for an evening of chatting, sharing, planning, commiserating, pontificating - and all things about writing.
This is the perfect place to workshop your writing.
Occasionally we have writers ask if they can read from their published work. This doesn't
work for us as part of the enjoyment for listeners is in giving feedback. A published book is like a word carved in stone. There is nothing we can say. And that, as they say, is most disappointing. So we stick to work in progress, whether that is a first or tenth draft. That's when the group works best- both for the writer and the listener.
We meet at the Battersea Arts Centre on Lavender Hill, South London
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