A useful workshop to either get you started on your writing journey, or to help you on your way at whichever stage you find yourself.
- Why keep a journal?
- Who is your audience?
For writers, the notebook is an essential part of their toolkit. Along with a pen, some space and a little imagination, it’s all that’s needed for the first stage of writing. The writer’s notebook is a place to experiment and to gather information and ideas to develop into a poem, story, play, novel, or other genres. The eventual aim is to produce a polished piece of writing to be shared with an external reader. A journal, on the other hand, need not be shared. It may be kept for your eyes only.
About Christine Lawrence:
An ex-psychiatric nurse turned author/spoken word performer, Christine’s fiction draws on real life experiences and local settings. One of the BookFest 2012 ‘Writers to Watch’, her work has been featured in anthologies and projects including: Portsmouth Fairy Tales for Grown Ups, Writing Edward King, Cursed City Dark Tide and Pompey Writes, the best of Star and Crescent. In 2021, she facilitated writing workshops as part of the ‘Libraries Connected BBC Novels that shaped the world’ project. She’s passionate about writing for well-being, was a founder of T’Articulation and has been a workshop leader for the environmental writing platform Pens of the Earth.
