Anna Beer 1: Focus
Approaching Writing with Dr Anna Beer
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33m
A chance to explore creatively the many and various ways in which you might want to shape your narrative. Above all, this session offers you a chance to think, hard, about what your work in progress is really about. You may be surprised.
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Anna Beer 2: Voice
Beginning by reading, closely, the work of two powerful novelists, you will be encouraged to play with your prose: bringing peripheral moments or characters centre stage; celebrating (or culling) adjectives; and exploring the myriad of perspectives and voices you could perhaps use to tell your st...
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Anna Beer 3: Sources
How can we bring, most powerfully, our ‘sources’ (and I include lived experience as a source) into our life-writing? You will explore the different ways you could use letters, artefacts, and the work/words of others to give authority and energy to your narrative. I talk about the complex question...
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Anna Beer 4: Silence
Silences take many forms. Perhaps there’s something crucial missing from, or barely glimpses, in your sources. What can we do with these silences in the archive? This session celebrates the narrative power that can be gained by actively recognising lacunae and absences, censorship and neglect. Th...
