Online Crime-writing Workshop
I don't usually respond to advertising requests - well, all right, I do - but I thought this was interestingly and directly relevant to the topic of this blog, which is about how crime writers do what they do.
Carrie King from WritersWebTV has written to me asking if I would promote this event and I think it's interesting enough to warrant further publicity. Rather than try to paraphrase it, I'll just paste the main text of her email:
Carrie King from WritersWebTV has written to me asking if I would promote this event and I think it's interesting enough to warrant further publicity. Rather than try to paraphrase it, I'll just paste the main text of her email:
Crime’s
best writers give you the scoop
Best-selling
crime authors Ken Bruen, Jane Casey, Declan Hughes and
Niamh O’Connor will be joining WritersWebTV on October 30th,
ready to arm aspiring authors with all the best writing tips, tricks and methods
at the upcoming workshop, Crime Pays: Writing Crime
Fiction.
Multi-award-winning
Ken Bruen - the author of the Jack Taylor series which has become a TV
hit starring Iain Glen – will talk through writing great hook-lines and how to
develop characters across a series. Jane Casey, author of the Maeve
Kerrigan series of crime novels will guide participants through the basics of
narrative and plot. Declan Hughes - author of the Ed Loy PI series -
rigorously plans his writing and he’ll be giving his insights on how to plan for
your novel while being open to new sources of inspiration. Niamh
O’Connor, one of Ireland’s leading crime journalists, will lead us through
the research process and crack the code of juggling family, writing and a
day-job.
This
free-to-watch-live, online workshop will cover all aspects of crime fiction and
viewers will be able to interact with those in studio to help them develop their
skills. WritersWebTV has developed a world-first innovation in online education
for writers by providing livestreamed interactive workshops to a global
audience, featuring Irish and international best-selling writers and industry
professionals.
The
one-day workshops are streamed live from a multi-camera broadcast studio in
Dublin. Bestselling authors interact with an in-studio audience of aspiring
writers, who present their work for critique. Online viewers can communicate
with those in the studio using Twitter, Facebook or email. They can ask a
question, take part in a workshop exercise, comment online and benefit from
on-screen feedback from the authors in-studio.
Led
by experienced workshop facilitator Vanessa O’Loughlin, founder of writing.ie,
the panel will consider the key elements of fiction writing and furnish viewers
with tips, advice and actionable insights to help them improve their writing and
get it on the path to publication.
Upcoming
courses include Crime Pays: Writing Crime Fiction on Wednesday, October
30th, and Getting Published on Saturday, November 9th, with
plans in motion for courses in 2014.
Viewers
can watch the full one-day workshops for free when they watch them live. If they
want to download a workshop or watch it later, they can pay to keep the
course.
For
more information, contact:
Carrie
King
WritersWebTV
Email:
press@writerswebtv.com
Tel:
+353 1 2076476
Mob:
+353 87 9918963
