How to write fiction based on real-life experiences
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The Guardian
Kings Place 90 York Way London N1 9GU United KingdomRefund Policy
Description
This course will teach you how to weave elements of real life into fiction. Led by author Steve Attridge, you’ll learn techniques to question and organise your life experiences, as well as and how to use prompts to build plots and characters.
Course content
- How to explore real life experiences and transpose them into fiction
- Using prompts: how photographs, letters and significant objects can create context
- Storytelling and editing techniques
- Practical exercises on how to make fictional sense of factual reality, with opportunity for feedback
- Q&A and discussion
This course is for you if...
- You’re a new writer planning to draw on your own experiences as material from which to create interesting fiction
- You’re a more experienced fiction writer keen to explore new territories of inspiration and realism
- You have experience writing in another field or genre and want to move into autobiographical fiction
Tutor profile
Steve Attridge’s work includes 17 books, a dozen TV series and seven feature films, as well as documentary dramas, TV films, stage plays and poetry. His latest novel, The Natural Law, came straight in at number one in the Kindle Singles Bestsellers. He has also written a recently published history of the Boer War. Find out more about Steve on his website.
Full course and returns information on the Masterclasses website
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