DAY WORKSHOP ON ORFORD NESS WITH LIZ FERRETTI, ARTIST ANTONY LYONS, AND THE NATIONAL TRUST

On Friday 20th September I’ll be leading a day of writing on Orford Ness – a shingle spit on the Suffolk coast managed by the National Trust, that is full of inspiration for writers,

“The wildness and instability of Orford Ness fascinate me, and I’ve always wanted to encourage other writers to come here – you cannot visit and not be inspired,” says workshop leader Liz Ferretti, whose novel in progress, Samphire Man, is set along the Suffolk Coast of the future, “there’s a lot to take in, so a combination of guided writing exercises from me, Antony Lyons on his thoughtful installation, ‘Sensitive Chaos’, and expert input from National Trust Rangers will open up the past, present and future of this dramatic setting.”

“Orford Ness is a microcosm for bigger themes about how humans live on the planet, and what control and intervention we have,” suggests artist Antony Lyons, whose ‘Sensitive Chaos’ installation is part of an international Heritage Futures project on landscape transformation, which includes zones in Cornwall and Portugal. “The Ness braids and weaves themes of continuous, on-going change. How we understand and observe that change, and how we celebrate it can be a powerful spur to creativity,” Antony Lyons says.

For more information email: orfordness@nationaltrust.org.uk

WRITER REVEALED WORKSHOPS ON AIR

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With two great workshops coming up – The Inner Critic, 27 April, and a day with the National Trust on Orfordness in June – as well as appearing on BBC Radio Suffolk with other writers from my region, it’s been a busy time for me as Writer Revealed.

The Jon Wright Tuesday Takeover on BBC Radio Suffolk
I took part in an evening of talk and music about writing on my regional radio show this week. The show featured a range of writers working in different genres – play scripts, poetry, novels, modern fables, children’s adventure fiction, literary fiction and my own speculative fiction, which if you don’t know is a branch of science fiction – stories set in the future, with their roots firmly in the present.

Here is a link to the whole show:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p073z79p

We talked about different routes into publishing, read out extracts of our work, told our own writer’s stories, and gave tips on how to get started in writing. We also had a lot of fun.

Here are our writing tips: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p076195f 

Writer Revealed – The Inner Critic
The next Writer Revealed taught workshop is on 27 April from 09.30–12.30.
The focus is on getting to know our inner critic, seeing how it helps and hinders, and exploring how we can harness it to actually help us in our writing practice.

Because the workshop is about our relationship with writing, it is suitable for all writers, whether beginner or more experienced, and working in all genres. It's friendly and supportive – we share ideas but don't tend to read our writing out.

The workshops costs £35 for a single booking. There is a five pound discount each if you book with a friend. It runs from 09.30 to 12.30 at the Burness Parish Rooms, Melton, IP12 1PW – two minutes from the Woods Lane roundabout on the A12 at Woodbridge. There is plenty of free parking.

EXCITING NEWS – WRITER REVEALED ANNOUNCES COLLABORATION WITH NATIONAL TRUST
On Thursday 6th June I will be leading a small group of writers on a day workshop in one of the most enigmatic locations on the British coast – Orfordness in the East Anglian county of Suffolk.

Orford Ness, a National Trust National Nature Reserve on the coast of Suffolk, is the inspiration for some of our best nature writers. The sound of the waves on the shingle, waders calling on the estuary, and the wind blowing through the decaying military buildings, make a day on the Ness an unforgettable experience. 

The Orford Ness day writing workshop is on Thursday 6th June 2019. To book go to orfordness@nationaltrust.org.uk or for more information go to nationaltrust.org.uk/orfordness. Places are strictly limited and must be booked in advance. The workshop costs £65.00 for National Trust Members, and £72.00 for non-members and includes the cost of the ferry crossing, as well as a lunchtime writers’ surgery with your tutor.

Participants are asked to meet at Orford Quay at 09.30 and will return to the Quay at 16.30. Please wear comfortable walking shoes and dress for a day in the open. While part of the day will be spent at base camp, facilities are limited on the Reserve, so participants will need to bring food and drink.

If you want any more information about the workshop or the writing day on Orford Ness then please email me, Liz, info@writerrevealed.co.uk

Happy writing. See you all soon!
Liz

The Portable Writing Space – Saturday morning writing workshop

Writer Revealed Creative Writing Workshop NOW BOOKING

Saturday 2 March 09.30–12.30 at The Burness Parish Rooms, Melton, Woodbridge. Directions here: http://burnessparishrooms.org/Find_Us.htm

The concept behind The Portable Writing Space is a simple one. What we bring to our writing – in the form of conscious and unconscious beliefs – has a powerful impact on our writing, and our enjoyment of writing. This workshop shines a light on some of those beliefs and starts to transform them, turning them into our allies in our writing practice.

The Writer Revealed approach is about your relationship with your writing. It’s developed from my work with myself and hundreds of writers at all stages in their writing careers, and whatever genre they write in. It works to free your creativity. We work in a friendly and supportive atmosphere, and while we share ideas and thoughts, we are often experimenting with new ideas, and writing new work, so we don’t tend to read our work out during the workshop.

Book here.
There is a discount of £5 per person if you book two tickets.
Repeat bookings discount £100 – pay for four of the monthly workshops to be taken between March and December 2019 and pay only £25 per session. That’s a discount of £10 on the full workshop price.
Just email me to let me know which workshop you are attending so that I can prepare enough materials.

The full list of workshop dates will be posted on the website soon. The next one is on 2 March. Following workshops will generally be on the last Saturday of the month.

CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP WITH WRITER REVEALED 26 JANUARY 2019

Saturday morning creative writing workshops in 2019. Book here.

*Why come to a writing workshop?*
One of the most challenging parts of being a writer is keeping going. This workshop will give you.

• a toolkit of tips and techniques to keep you on track
• help to re-energise an existing project
• or kick-start a new one.

Writer Revealed writing workshops are based on my work with hundreds of writers of all ages and at all stages of their writing, across the UK and more recently internationally.
The Writer Revealed approach is about helping writers identify and loosen barriers – conscious or less obvious, practical or belief-based – that can hold us back from writing, and from enjoying the process.

*More Information – Kick Start Your Writing*

• Saturday 26 January, 09.30–12.30.
• The Burness Parish Rooms, 38, The Street, Melton, IP12 1PW – 2 minutes off the A12 at the Woods Lane roundabout in Woodbridge. There is plenty of free parking.

It's £35 for three hours, or £60 if you book two tickets together – that's a £5 discount per person. Refreshments are provided. There will be cake and a free inspiration game for participants of this first workshop of 2019.

Workshops will be monthly throughout 2019. Email me for more details info@writerrevealed.co.uk

Book here.

Kick start your writing project, or get back on track, in a friendly and supportive atmosphere, where we share our ideas, but don't tend to read our work out – this is about your relationship with your writing.

YOUR FREE INSPIRATION TOOL

FREE INSPIRATION CALENDAR – DOWNLOAD IT HERE
A free writing calendar to help support your writing in 2019. Download it, print it out, then mark each day you write – mark each day you do some writing – if you write down one idea, a single sentence, or half a page, it is still writing!

This tool is simple but its power comes in how you approach it.

Use it as a stick and your journey will be harder, use it to support your writing and it will help! Get your free writing inspiration tool here.

NEW SATURDAY MORNING WRITING WORKSHOPS WITH WRITER REVEALED
First workshop – Kick Start Your Writing – is 09.30–12.30, Saturday 26 January at the Burness Parish Rooms, 38 The Street, Melton, Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 1PW. Book here.

The Burness Parish Rooms are two minutes from the Woods Lane roundabout on the A12 at Woodbridge, and there is plenty of free parking. Directions: http://burnessparishrooms.org/Find_Us.htm

Cost: £35 per person. Book here.
Discount: Book with a friend and get £5 off the full price per person. Book here – choose the two ticket option
There is a free Inspiration Game for attendees of the first workshop, and there will be cake :-)


Writer Revealed Online Self-study course
If you can’t make the workshops, then try out the online self-study course (available here)
The Writer Revealed online course is thirty 20–minute self-study tasks, to take at your own pace.
It is suitable for all writers and all genres – the course has been taken by writers of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, songwriting, and scriptwriting.
It’s an approach that works to free up your creative thinking, and smooth away some snags and sticking points that can hold you back.

If you want to find out more, email me, Liz, at info@writerrevealed.co.uk

FREE SUPPORT FOR YOUR WRITING IN 2019

WRITER REVEALED FIVE MINUTES

Want to go a bit deeper in your writing practice? Interested in peeling back the layers of your writing? Every day during 2019 I am posting a free five-minute writing or thinking task on Writer Revealed Instagram and Facebook.

Follow Writer Revealed Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/writerrevealed/
Like the Writer Revealed Facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/writerrevealed/

The aim of Writer Revealed Five Minutes is to encourage you to feed your creative thinking, first, and second, to build a writer’s toolkit, the basis of which is awareness. Each five minute task focusses on a different technique, finding new sources of inspiration, and in the process revealing and reframing beliefs that can hold you back.

It is suitable for all writers whether you are at just starting out, or have been writing a while, and whatever genre you work in – I have worked with novelists, short story writers, song writers, non-fiction writers, poets, and at all stages in their writing careers…

Follow Writer Revealed on Instragram or Like the Facebook page
1. Writer Revealed Instagram page https://www.instagram.com/writerrevealed/
2. Writer Revealed Facebook https://www.facebook.com/writerrevealed/

FREE INSPIRATION CALENDAR – DOWNLOAD IT HERE
A free, downloadable writing calendar to help support your writing in 2019. Download it, print it out, then mark each day you write – mark each day you do some writing – if you write down one idea, a single sentence, or half a page, it is still writing!

This tool is simple but its power comes in how you approach it.

Use it as a stick to beat yourself and your journey will be harder, use it to encourage your endeavours and it will help! Get your free writing inspiration tool here.

If you want to know more, email me, Liz, at info@writerrevealed.co.uk.

Happy writing!

FREE GIFTS TO KICK START A YEAR OF WRITING

I love finding ways to support my writing practice. Here are a great idea and a free gift to help you.

FREE INSPIRATION GIFT! DOWNLOAD IT HERE
Here is a writing calendar that I hope help you make 2019 the year of writing. I adapted it from an idea my daughter found on Pinterest.

Download it, print it out, then mark each day you write – mark each day you do some writing – if you write down one idea, a single sentence, or half a page, it is still writing!

This tool is simple but its power comes in how you approach it.

Use it as a stick to beat yourself and your journey will be harder, use it to encourage your endeavours and it will help! Get your free writing inspiration tool here.

MORE SUPPORT
The Tomato Timer
Also known as The Pomodoro Technique. Developed by Francesco Cirillo during the 1980s, and inspired by his mother’s tomato-shaped kitchen timer, this breaks work down into intervals, usually of 25 minutes each.
This technique makes tasks manageable – you don’t have to complete a song cycle, a poetry collection or a novel, you only focus on the next 25 minutes. It can also transform your relationship with writing. Working in chunks of time pulls your focus onto PROCESS and not result.

Here is a link to a free ‘Tomato Timer’ you can access on your phone or laptop when you want to write: https://tomato-timer.com/

WRITING WORKSHOPS
Retraining our relationship with writing is the main focus in my online course and my taught workshops. I am now taking bookings for my first workshop of 2019
Saturday 26 January, 09.30-12.30, at the Burness Parish Rooms, 38 The St, Melton, Woodbridge IP12 1PW, Suffolk) Book here.

The Burness Parish Rooms are about two minutes from the Woods Lane roundabout on the A12 at Woodbridge, Suffolk, and there is plenty of free parking.
Directions to the Burness Parish Rooms here

MAKE 2019 THE YEAR OF WRITING!

NEW WRITER REVEALED WORKSHOPS FOR 2019
The first of my Saturday morning creative writing workshops will be held on 29 January, 2019, between 09.30 and 12.30 at the Burness Parish Rooms, in Melton, Suffolk. The Burness Rooms are two minutes from the Woods Lane roundabout on the A12 at Woodbridge, and there is plenty of free parking. (Directions here: http://burnessparishrooms.org/Find_Us.htm)


TWO TICKET DISCOUNT
The price is £35.00, with a £5 discount per person if two tickets are booked together.

FREE INSPIRATION GAME – INTRODUCTORY OFFER
Each participant of the first workshop will receive a free inspiration game.

Refreshments are provided – including cake!
Book here.
For more information, email Liz Ferretti, at info@writerrevealed.co.uk

WRITER REVEALED RETURNS!

NEW AUTUMN COURSE NOW BOOKING.

SIX-WEEK CREATIVE WRITING COURSE FOR CONFIDENCE
QUAY PLACE, IPSWICH, SUFFOLK, IP4 1BZ.
Monday 17 September 2018 – Monday 22 October 2018

Want to become a more confident writer? Ready to start bringing new techniques into your writing practice? Starting this September, Writer Revealed is running a new six-week creative writing course in Ipswich which aims to help you become more confident in your writing.
Each session is specially designed to

• explore different aspects of your writing
• to shake off old patterns that might be holding you back
• build confidence
• encourage you to experiment
• and have fun.

Courses run at Quay Place in Ipswich – a stunning converted church in the old medieval heart of Ipswich – which has found a new life under the ownership of Suffolk Mind as a community heritage and well-being centre.

Location: Quay Place, Key Street, Ipswich, IP4 1BZ (opposite Dance East)
Dates: Every Monday for six weeks from 17 September– 22 October
When: 18.45 (for a 19.00 start) to 20.30
Places strictly limited.

For more information: info@writerrevealed.co.uk

WRITER REVEALED ON BBC RADIO SUFFOLK

Today, I am honoured and excited to be chatting about writing with the lovely Georgina Wroe of BBC Radio Suffolk at around 12.30.

Link to Georgina's programme here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0633x8z

I will be talking to Georgina about writing, how I started out, about the pitfalls and hard lessons, but also the joys of writing. Above all, I will be explaining how passionate I am about encouraging others to write, and to love writing.

I will also be explaining the thinking behind Writer Revealed writing courses and announcing the launch of my brand new online self study course which you can buy here.