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Notebook

The shift from face-to-face meetings to online means that our sessions and workshops are recorded and now available for viewing on our YouTube channel!

The content from our previous (face-to-face) sessions are available below as blog posts.

Blog: Welcome

The Beginning

Suffering with a writer’s block? Don’t know how to begin a story? Fear not, read on to find some solutions to aid your writing process....

Autobiographical Writing

Exploring the genre “A retrospective prose narrative produced by a real person concerning their own existence, focusing on their...

Mini Poetry - Limericks, Haiku & More

‘Mini’ Poetry -Limericks -Haiku -Cheesy Poems Cheesy Poem “Roses are red, Violets are blue…” 1590 by Sir Edmund Spencer, The Faerie...

Romance

Modern Romance novels usually focus on the struggles the character faces while finding Mr. or Mrs. Right. Although the character may also...

Beach Day!

​ On Saturday, the 14th of September, InkSoc journeyed to Kenton-on-Sea where we managed to soak up some sun, engage with the gorgeous...

Community Engagement Initiative

On Thursday, the 12th of September, some of our members volunteered at a local primary school as part of our Community Engagement...

Editing

Editing is rewriting previous work that you find unnecessary or in need of altering. Change occurs throughout our lives, so it seems...

Characters

Google sensei defines a character as the mental and moral qualities distinctive to an individual. A character for a novel, poem or prompt...

Fantasy

Fantasy is a well known genre, even if you yourself do not enjoy it there is no doubt that you’ve heard of Lord of the Rings, Harry...

Psychological Thriller

What is it about? Psychological thriller is a sub-genre of the broader thriller narrative which emphasizes the unstable or delusional...

Prose Poetry

Definition: An oxymoron or contradiction Prose = sentences and paragraphs Poetry = compiled of verses and stanzas A form of poetry that...

Parody, Caricature, and Satire

Let’s get comical! We delved into some of the techniques used to write great comedy, focusing on parody and caricature and how they...

Stream of Consciousness

Definition: To depict the thoughts of the narrator in a free-flowing, haphazard and natural manner. Why are we learning this? -It’s...

World Building

What is World Building? World building is the process of constructing an imaginary world Features such a history, geography & culture...

Types of Conflict in a Narrative

What do we mean by conflict? When a character has a goal, but something prevents them from achieving it – conflict arises. Conflict is...

Flash Fiction

Tips & Info AKA “micro-fiction, is a story of extreme brevity, that tells a condensed, yet complete narrative” Popular genres include...

Dialogue

This week two of our members teamed up to take a look at dialogue. We started off with a simple definition: “Dialogue is the exchange of...

Horror – What Goes Bump in the Night

What scares us? And why write about it? Horror is the genre that thrives off those two questions. What makes Horror so enticing and...

Tragedy is the Root of All Comedy

The Two-Fold Question: Take a situation your characters are in: what’s the worst thing that could happen now? And what’s the funniest? A...

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