Writing about real lives and experiences – your own, or someone else’s – is rewarding but also daunting. What if you have too much information, or your story involves other people? How do you fill the gaps? How do you keep the reader reading? What if your core purpose is to write creatively not about a life, but about a specific place or time, journey or sickness, idea or vocation? And when does storytelling tip over into fiction?

In this practical tutorial, we will use practical exercises, examples, discussion and the sharing of writing to explore ways of imagining, researching, developing, shaping and voicing real-life material to form a narrative. There will be time to ask questions, and you should take away a wider and deeper sense of the possibilities of these exciting forms, a clearer idea of how to set about your own particular project, and perhaps even some new ideas.

To find out more, click through to the Blue Pencil website.