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SUMMARY:Raw Writing Challenge for January
DESCRIPTION:Are you looking for writing inspiration to kick off 2026?\nDo you want to become a better writer?\nDo you want to establish a regular writing practice?\nDo you want to join a writing community and enjoy a weekly Zoom get-together where you can discuss your writing week? \nIf the answer to any of the above questions is ‘YES!’ then please sign up for the Raw Writing January 31 Day Challenge. \nThis is how it works: \nYou’ll receive your first Raw Writing prompt on Thursday 1st January.\nYou’ll be encouraged to set a timer for five minutes and then just write!\nThere’s no pressure to go beyond five minutes\, although if you want to write for longer\, go for it.\nYou’ll continue to receive a Raw Writing prompt every morning in January.\nRaw Writing will host optional live Zoom sessions each week (Sunday 4th\, 11th\, 18th and 25th\, 17.00-18.00) so you can come along and discuss your writing week with everyone else who signed up. \nWhen you write regularly\, you get better at it. But sometimes it’s hard to know where to start. The more we encourage ourselves to view the world differently\, think in new ways and create a discipline\, five minutes at a time\, the more inspired we’ll feel.\nSome of the best writing I’ve produced has been in response to writing prompts that initially made me feel deflated\, annoyed\, or uncomfortable!\nThis Raw Writing January Challenge gives you the opportunity to step outside your comfort zone and experiment with your writing.\nYou will build a great portfolio of writing that you can then come back to and develop further.\nIt is just £30. This is a one-off payment for 31 days of writing prompts and the chance to attend four live Zoom sessions.\nIf you’d like to take part but find cost is a barrier\, there are some funded places available.\nI would love you to be part of this Raw Writing challenge and take your writing to the next level!
URL:https://www.rawwriting.co.uk/event/raw-writing-challenge-for-january/
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CATEGORIES:Monthly Writing Challenge
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SUMMARY:Introduction to Comedy Writing
DESCRIPTION:10.30-12   Wednesday  14th\, 21st\, 28th January and 4th Feb \nComedy is one of the most powerful tools in a writer’s toolkit\, but have you ever stopped to think about what it actually is that makes something funny? How do you know if your writing is going to make people laugh? Where’s the line between comic and tragic characters\, and\, most importantly\, can comedy even be taught? (Let’s hope so.) \nWhile good comedy can feel effortless\, there’s plenty of hard work going on behind the scenes to make it look that way. This course will give you an introduction to some of the basic techniques of comedy writing\, from creating relatable yet flawed characters to getting to grips with punchlines and… \n…wait for it… \n…timing. \n(I’ll get my coat.) \nJo Middleton is the author of three comedy novels\, having been first approached by Penguin in 2019 on the back of her comedy lifestyle and parenting blog. She hosted the comedy podcast It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere with friend and fellow comic writer Gill Sims and was the host of Gill’s two-month theatre tour – Tits\, Gits and Little Sh*ts – in 2022
URL:https://www.rawwriting.co.uk/event/introduction-to-comedy-writing/
LOCATION:Exeter Phoenix\, Gandy St\, Exeter\, Devon\, EX4 3LS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Four Week Course
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SUMMARY:Introduction to Playwriting
DESCRIPTION:This exciting six-week course gives writers the opportunity to learn different approaches to playwriting whilst preparing their own short play\, which will be performed by actors at the Exeter Barnfield Theatre on the evening of the final week (details to be confirmed). \nSession Dates\nWednesdays\, 2pm – 4pm \nWed 14 Jan\nWed 21 Jan\nWed 28 Jan\nWed 04 Feb\nWed 11 Feb\nTBC
URL:https://www.rawwriting.co.uk/event/introduction-to-playwriting/
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SUMMARY:Introduction to Horror Fiction
DESCRIPTION:What makes us shiver? What makes our skin crawl? What\, more to the point\, makes the reader shiver? It’s not just about ghosts\, demonic possession\, serial killers\, pleasure-seeking immortals with pins stuck in their heads\, weird little unblinking kids with posh accents\, and unknowable amoral beings from the voids between the stars (though those things are part of horror\, to be sure). Horror is everywhere. Sometimes subtle\, sometimes not. Sometimes the monsters are\, well\, monsters. And sometimes the ‘monsters’ are a cruel father\, a cruel system\, a cruel situation. \nWhy are two stories\, both set pretty much in a single room (Stephen King’s ‘1408’\, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’\, published in 1892) so unsettling\, so freaky? Why do they linger? \nWith a focus on short stories\, this four-week course will look at just what horror fiction is\, and how to write the best horror fiction we can. \nWednesdays \n17.30-19.00  14th\,21st\,28th Jan\, 4th Feb
URL:https://www.rawwriting.co.uk/event/introduction-to-horror-fiction/
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