Creativity for Writers with Hilary Bell

This writing course, Creativity for Writers with Hilary Bell, will be held at Writing NSW in Sydney.

It’s a brand-new year, and the perfect opportunity to rejuvenate your creative writing practice! You’ve got the itch to write something, but where do you start? You have a big idea, but what’s the story? Or maybe you’ve got no ideas at all, just the urge to write: So what can you do?

The premise of this course with Hilary Bell is that you only need to find an entry point, through which you can access the idea that’s inside you. The more entry points we have to choose from, the better. This course is designed to help you create characters, narrative ideas, conflicts, stakes, scenes, and even complete outlines, each one being a portal into a potential new work.

After beginning with a warm-up, every session will use a different stimulus leading to a piece of writing. These stimuli range from photographs to household objects, memories to fairy-tales, random instructions to the world of the senses. By the end of the course, you’ll have the kernels of at least six new ideas.