And What If?
The Houldsworth, 40 Little Lever Street,,
Manchester
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Can you go from having a blank piece of paper to the seeds of a story you want to write in two hours? The answer is ... I've no idea, but I thought it might be fun to find out.
OK - this is the plan ...
The lovely Sally Lawton has a place in central Manchester where people can get together and do stuff. I though it might be nice to get a few people together and see if we can find the beginnings of stories we might want to write one day - whether they are plays, sketches, short stories, novels or War and Peace 2.
The idea is this. Fifteen people arrive with an empty notebook. Two hours later we will all go to the pub feeling much better about ourselves with a working title for a story, a brief synopsis, and perhaps some indecipherable scribblings that will get you started.
We all bring £3 to cover the cost of the room, some biscuits and me doing a bit of planning in order to lead the session and spend a couple of hours trying to help each other find the nuggets to something that may take over our lives and make us want to write it all down! Or we might just have written total gubbins but we will have only lost £3 and 2 hours and there is always the pub.
This isn't a writing workshop in the usual sense (i.e. reading out work etc). Its intention is to come with nothing and go away with something. I reckon a group of about 15 would be just about the right number. If it works and we get 15 people to come down I will set you a little challenge to complete at the very last minute to help with the session. It might be to take take a photograph, bring in something from home, buy a paper etc that we would use as the ignition.
I hope you might be interested. Like I say, I could be fun, it could be pants but we won't know unless we do it, will we?
Whenever I have been writing the best leap forward at the early stages has either been me or someone else saying "Yeah, and what if ..."
If you fancy please like the page and leave a message. Optimistically, first come first served.
Ta
Luke Walker
