The Building Blocks of Fiction

The Building Blocks of Fiction
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10 weeks live tuition online

A course about how you write rather than what you write.

This course is about the craft of writing, those tricks and techniques writers use to engage readers in their words on the page. Our focus will be on writing craft rather than story, plot or structure. We will be concerned with process rather than product, with trying things out and gauging the effect.

About your tutor: Kath Morgan

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Make a note for 2026

When: 4 February to 15 April
Sessions: 10 x 2.5 hours
Day of Week: Wednesday
Time:10.00am to 12.30pm
Venue: Zoom

Forum: Online
Tutor Feedback: Plenty
Price: £495

Course Programme 2026

Wednesday Mornings - 10.00am to 12.30pm

Dates 2025

4 February
11 February
18 February
25 February
4 March
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18 March
25 March
1 April
8 April
15 April

Session Focus

Week 1: Introduction and Character
Week 2: Setting
Week 3: Dialogue

Week 4: Point of View
Week 5: Showing and Telling
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Week 6: Foreshadowing
Week 7: Flashback
Week 8: Basic Structure
Week 9: Language One
Week 10: Language Two

Each week you'll spend two and half hours on Zoom with your tutor and peers, discussing and practising an aspect of the craft of writing fiction.

You will enjoy 24 hour access to an online Forum throughout the course, where you can post work for comment by both your tutor and your peers.

Our clients tell us the thing they most value is personal feedback on their work, so you'll get a generous level of feedback throughout this course.

All live sessions can be recorded and sent to you to keep, so if you are going to miss a class and would like it recorded, just let the tutor know.

If you have any questions about this course, send us an email at contact@thewritingretreat.co.uk and we'll get back to you. We promise, we don't bite here at The Writing Retreat, not even Becks, our writing retreat dog.