Short Story: The Rainwitch
November 29, 2024
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December 9, 2024I love this time of year - and not just because it's festive. There's something joyful about being curled up in the warmth while the wind blusters against the trees outside and the rain hammers against the window.
It's the steaming cup of tea in front of me and the way the entire world seems to be coated in glitter in the morning. It's the way the dog cuddles up to me to keep warm - and how cute he looks in his pyjamas.
For me, December is a great time of year, and this year, it's even better because the Novice to Novelist workshops are really taking off - and they're so much fun. So what's going on this month?
The Workshops
This month, we're talking all about delightful dialogue - one of my favourite parts of writing. We'll talk about:
- Creating unique character voices for each of your characters
- How to make your dialogue sound natural - without including all the boring stuff that normal speech includes
- Ways to feed subtext into your dialogue
- How to punctuate and structure your dialogue
- Dialogue tags, action tags, and modifiers
As always, we'll do a range of exercises and prompts, including but not limited to:
- The Single-Word Conversation
- The Reaction
- The Background
How to Take Part
Gouzon
Costin & Castille, ZA Bellevue, Gouzon, 23230
December 5th, 2pm
15€ (reservation recommended but not required)
Online
Zoom
December 20th, 2pm CET (French time)
15€ (reservation required)
Aigurande Writers' Nook
39 Place du Champ de Foire, Aigurande, 36140 (in the nook above Annie's Bar)
December 26th, 2pm
15€ (reservation recommended but not required)
The Book
December sees the release of a new collection of short stories, all written by the RIVA Writing Group here in France! It's been a group effort to produce a wide range of extremely diverse stories, all tied in together by a single storyline.
The stories are:
- The Ghost Writer by Chris Chalk
- Carrots are the Problem by Clare Burns
- Charlie's Story by Jem Laws
- Where There's a Will... by Kyra Ayre
- Green Glasses by Judi Castille
- Lire et ecrire:l'un peut-il etre l'autre? by Vanessa Berry
- In Syn by Lily O. Laverick
- Bubbling Waters Run Deep by Debi Waller
- Una Plumb by me, Vicky
You can pre-order your Kindle copy now or wait until December 10th and get your hands on a paperback copy.
