One Day I Wrote - Our creative writing workshop!

One day you want to write a story. One day you will write a book. One day you will become a famous writer. Sounds like daydreaming? Not necessarily:

Write for One Day at our creative writing workshop!

When: 2 July, 10.00 - 17.30 h

Where: The Hub Brussels

37 rue du Prince Royal, (Porte de Namur metro)

Costs: 10€ including sandwich lunch and creative cocktail

Register: by sending an email to: brusselsnerds@gmail.com

What to bring along: paper & pen, a book (for a book swap), and your magnificent creative mood.

During the day we will work on character, conflict & climax, with the goal to have a full short story and a cocktail at the end!

We are also happy to announce the London-based author Oliver Harris is crossing the channel to tell us what it is like to get your book published. He will be joining the workshop to talk about anything a writer with aspirations to publish comes across.
Read a review of his book here.

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Programme

10h00-10h30 Arrival and registration, welcome
Please pay € 10,- in cash and provide us a book you want to give away (it might make someone happy at the end of the day...)

10h30-11h45 Getting started & Characters
Afraid you will not get any inspiration? Do not worry. To get the writing going, we start off by using inspirational tools that should get tickle the imagination-provoking parts of your brain.

11h45-12h45 Presentation by Oliver Harris (UK) 
This freshly-published author from London will tell us how he got inspired and how he carried out the crafting process to get published.

12h45-13h45 Lunch break
Sandwich lunch offered

13h45-14h30 Conflict & Climax


Now that you have developed a character, how does it get into a conflict? In order for your ideas to become a story, your character will have to overcome challenges.



14h30-15h00 Coffee break




15h00-15h45 WRITE!

Ah, finally we will give you some time to leave you alone and do some proper writing!



15h45-16h45 Feedback in little groups
In little groups you will present your freshly-written stories and give feedback on your fellow-writers. And no, there is nothing scary about this, trust us :-)

16h45-17h00 ‘Nano-stories’
Summarise your story in 10 words



17h00-17h30 Conclusion & (voluntary) presentation of nano-stories



17h30 Creative cocktail

18h00 End
Do not forget to take along a book from the book swap!