Hello! Welcome to the information section for the Freelance Writers Groups! Hopefully you found this having clicked through from the very nice looking email we sent you advertising this - if not you've stumbled across something secret ahead of the planned announcement, which is a fun little surprise for you.
General Information
(also in the survey but also here - but please do the survey!)
Groups will be of 10 - 15 people - any more than that and no one can get a word in edgeways
Sign ups are on a first come, first served basis - if we are overwhelmed with interest we will try to expand!
There will be 2 groups available: a daytime and an evening group to best suit everyones availability.
If you do sign up, please know that you are committing to 8 consecutive weeks of sessions - obviously if emergencies occur, you may bow out, but in order for this to feel sustainable for anyone running or attending groups, we do ask that you commit to the 8 sessions
Sessions will be 2 to 3 hours long (with breaks) and will take place on Zoom
We will be starting at some point in October/November, depending on when is good for group members
All you will need to bring is yourself and a reasonable wifi connection - if you can do audio only, that is also fine!
Also this is free :)
Any questions, please just drop Nat an email at chronicinsanityscripts@gmail.com
8 Week Structure:
The current rough outline of what the plan is - if you sign up, I'll let you access the next level of detail!
Week 1: Maintaining it
General free writing techniques we'll be using throughout the 8 weeks, as well as general advice on how to maintain your writing practice. Considering the writers role as an architect versus a cartographer (map maker). A general check-in about everyone in the group, what we're all aiming for from these 8 weeks, whether we're singularly writers or multi-hyphenate, and how best to tailor these 8 weeks for the group.
Week 2: Digital & Site-Specific
The benefits of digital theatre (come on, you knew we were going to do that) and looking at the overlaps between digital theatre, site-specific, and immersive practices. Considering how audience interaction varies at many levels of standard theatre practices and digital theatre is more of an extension of that consideration. Also tailoring your content to your form, whatever form you take - that's important.
Week 3: Monologues
Keeping audiences interested, whether your talking at them or to them. Benefits and drawbacks of unreliable narrators, playing with time and levels of intimacy. We might also look at intertwining monologues - depends if we have time!
Week 4: Dualogues versus Dialogue
Dualogue = 2 people, Dialogue = 3 or more. Technically it's the same logic to writing the singular strand of a monologue. Except it's to the power of however many characters you have in the conversation. Lots of ways to consider these - levels of intimacy the characters have with each other, how setting affects that, etc etc etc.
Week 5: Auto
Autobiographical and auto fictional stories. We'll be looking at care for both audiences and practitioners, accuracy versus privacy and all that juicy stuff.
Week 6: Come and Share Session
You determine what kind of feedback you'd like on anything you've ever worked on. You'll be divided into groups according to whether you'd like constructive or supportive feedback and everyone will bring and read/have other people read their 5 pages.
Week 7: The Well-Made Play
It's sort of nonsense but it's sort of not - basically an exercise in tension and payoff. Multiple different ways you can do this and all sorts of examinations of the rules we're all quite familiar with. (3 acts, 5 acts, Chekhov's gun, audience satisfaction).
Week 8: Deviating from the Form
The fun part - the hard part is knowing what you're deviating from, because often precision is key. Are you hybridising, are you blending, are you just doing whatever you want - let's have a go.
Hopefully that sounds fun. If not, no worries! If you knew what I was going on about 90% of time, it's probably worth coming along. If you were completely baffled by all of it, we're also hopefully going to be running some more introductory-esque sessions for theatre-practitioners who are looking to begin to delve into writing, come 2023.
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