May, 2025
Bring a sense of place and atmosphere to your writing
Event Details
Whatever you set your story, it’s important to know where your characters are. What are they seeing, hearing and feeling and how much of that
Event Details
Whatever you set your story, it’s important to know where your characters are. What are they seeing, hearing and feeling and how much of that do you need to include in the manuscript? Is the landscape a character in itself and how much does it impact the story and the people you are writing about. Or is it simply a backdrop to the action?
Whatever the answer, having a real sense of place in your mind can help you write in 3D, giving your story that all important element that can lift it off the page into the imagination of the reader.
In this two-hour workshop, writer Chris Penhall uses her experience as an author, content writer and radio and podcast producer to help you bring the world you have in your mind to life, using simple exercises and strategies.
Drinks and snacks will be available to purchase on the night.
Tutor
Chris Penhall
Chris Penhall is an author of 6 contemporary romance novels. She has also written articles for local newspapers and magazines, website and e-commerce copy, radio cues and briefs, press releases, press packs and much more, some of these in the same working day!
She is also a freelance radio and podcast producer and worked for BBC Essex for many years doing all sorts of things including booking guests, producing live programmes, appearing live on air and producing four one-hour radio documentaries.
She also produces and presents a community radio programme, Books and Tunes and the podcast, Chris and Lizzie’s Random Bookish Chats with fellow author, Lizzie Chantree with whom she runs a monthly Writing Buddies Meet up
Location
Create98 Leigh
98 Broadway, Leigh-on-Sea, Southend-on-Sea, Leigh-on-Sea SS9 1AB
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