Workshop: The Author is Three-in-One with Helen Hagemann

Prose Workshop: The Author is Three-In-One: Learning how to distance the author from narrator and character with Helen Hagemann @ the Fremantle Arts Centre, Friday, 1st April, 1pm-3pm. 

  Class to read part of Frederick Reiken's essay titled The Author-Narrator-Character Merge from the anthology A Kite in the Wind. As well, writers will have the opportunity to write different POV versions  (exercises) using the idea of psychic distance of the author from narrator and character. 
Please Note: Class will be conducted in Room 2 (the old large room) upstairs at the Fremantle Arts Centre. 

This workshop acknowledges two authors, Julie Proudfoot and Megan Ward who alerted me to the book A Kite in the Wind and within its pages a valuable essay titled, The Author-Narrator-Character Merge: Why Many First-Time Novelists Wind Up with Flat, Uninteresting Protagonists by Frederick Reiken.

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Writing a Synopsis with Helen Hagemann

Prose Workshop: Writing a Synopsis with Helen Hagemann @ the Fremantle Arts Centre, Friday, 18th March 1pm-3pm.  This workshop is a response to members of the class asking for a guide to writing a synopsis. Class to read various examples and texts as well as writers will be given the opportunity to write several versions of a synopsis eg. 200, 300 or 500 words of their current novel or future novel in progress. Beginners who are not writing a novel will be given alternative exercises.

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