13 & 17 November

Zoom sessions 1000-11.30 each day plus a 45-minute session at the end of the day.

Course tutors will arrange a tutorial directly with the student in the days between the sessions.

Open to all year groups

Are you prone to procrastinating? Do you avoid writing until you’ve got your ideas fully worked out? Do you fear the blank page? If you find yourself looking for reasons not to start writing, then this workshop can help.

The Getting Going workshop will help you face down the demons that stop you putting pen to paper and introduce you to a variety of techniques to help you ambush or seduce yourself into getting going. These include free-writing and visualisation methods, skilled questioning, and exercises for ‘growing’ arguments out of key points. We’ll also help you identify and thereby outwit your own strategies for avoiding the blank page. Please come to the workshop with a specific chapter that you need to write in mind.