How to write a life? I have no particular theories as to how a life story should be structured and presented, but I am interested in understanding the nature of the stories you wish to tell and I will do my best to facilitate the telling of them. 

This stimulating, intensive five-day course is  intended to be used as part of your own process of writing. if you are already well into producing a finished manuscript then I would hope that with the exercises and discussions I can steer you forward towards completion. If you have an idea of the subject matter that you want to explore but not much else then by the end of the course I would hoped to have helped you find the writing voice that best suits you, the form your book might take and perhaps an opening page and some short chapters that will hold things steady after we have all gone our separate ways.

We'll start each session with a talk about what aspects of writing we are going to cover and after a short group discussion of the scope of the subject, I'll set a series of ten or fifteen minute 'quick sketches'. The morning will end with a longer task which you can complete later in the day. We will work together every morning and you have free writing time in the afternoon, but on day one I will arrange a schedule so that I have time to talk to all of you individually for half an hour or so: a short tutorial. From day two, we'll have a brief discussion on what you have discovered during the writing afternoon and then we steam on as before, with the next theme. By the way, you don't have to read all the books on the list, but do try as many as you can.

This course runs for five days, 10am–1.30pm each day. You will also have access to the room  for writing till 4pm.