One Day Courses with Jackie on Zoom
Contact Jackie (below) for further information and to book
A Story from Scratch
Do you like the idea of writing but don’t know where to start? Perhaps you have lots of ideas but would like help crafting them into a story? In this interactive session, we’ll use props and prompts to get the ideas flowing, apply the basic principles of short story writing and finish the day with your short story written, and the toolkit to write many more.
Day Course on Zoom
max nine people
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£65
Formidable First
A first chapter can feel daunting, whether it’s the first words written of a new book, or future editing of it. It has lots of jobs to do, and we’ll look at those, but the biggest one of all is to hook your reader into your author’s voice, your writing style, and for this they need to feel the emotion. Readers need a story but they won’t listen (AKA: read) if nothing about the voice engages them. In this session, we’ll focus in on the first chapter so that it grips the reader
and will not let them go.
Day Course on Zoom
max nine people
Please enquire for further information and schedule
£65
Sparkling Prose
Some would call this ‘editing’, but poor old ‘editing’ gets a bad press. It sounds laborious and dull but in reality, moving our first drafts into sparkling prose and pithy storytelling is the scene of many lightbulb and punching the air moments. In this session we’ll look at the key elements to taking your first draft, the words on the page, to a story that sparkles and sings. Some call it editing, I like to think of it as ‘transforming’ and adding the sparkle.
Day Course on Zoom
max nine people
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£65
Hooking the Deal
Ah, the dreaded synopsis and submission package. Lots of people finish their novel, only to fall at this hurdle. This isn’t because their writing is lacking, but because the submission process feels too huge to tackle. Don’t let this be you! We’ll look at the key elements involved in submitting a novel to an agent, or for traditional and self-publishing, really focussing in on the trickiest of them all, the synopsis.
We’ll do it together and make it fun!
Day Course on Zoom
max nine people
Please enquire for further information and schedule
£65
Multi Session Courses on Zoom
Contact Jackie (below) for further information and to book
Next places available: Feedback Frenzy Spring 2025
One term of four, monthly sessions on zoom: choose between the Monday morning or Tuesday evening course (January to April 2025)
Please use the contact form below for further information,
*course dates and to reserve your place
Total Price: £80 per course (four sessions)
All participants of Jackie Buxton Writes courses, receive free access
to Writing from Home (WfH): twice weekly sessions, writing together
on screen for great writing commitment and writerly camaraderie.
*Next course dates released on Wednesday 11 December
Feedback Frenzy on Zoom
Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise, writing is a team game. Whether a novel, short story, flash or experimental fiction, non-fiction or memoir, we can never know exactly how our words hit our readers because we know too much; our brains are crammed with everything that has contributed to the story, yet so little of this is
'on the page'. But worry not, help is on hand from your happy tutor and sunny fellow writers in our Feedback Frenzy writing workshops.
The focus of the sessions will be on your extracts and writing progress. You'll leave the session with a short writing exercise and other writing tit-bits to help you on your way, enthused and armed to continue with your latest project.
Class Size: minimum three; maximum four writers
Jackie Buxton
Writer, editor, teacher.
I’m the author of Tea & Chemo (Live Better With’s ‘Best Cancer Book, 2017’) and Glass Houses (upmarket book group fiction) as well as short stories in anthologies, Chase Magazine and on-line. I love every aspect of story-writing, including all the edits (honest) because they are what make our stories really SING. As well as teaching creative writing, I’ve edited scripts for as long as I can remember and professionally since 2013, and I love nothing more than watching those lightbulbs go off 😊
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